Give elevated privileges to specific Mistral actions that need to run with elevated privileges.¶

Sometimes it is not possible to execute some restricted actions from the mistral user, for example, when creating the Undercloud backup we won’t be able to access the /home/stack/ folder to create a tarball of it. For this cases it’s possible to execute elevates actions from the mistral user:

This is the content of the sudoers file in the root of the tripleo-common repository at the time of the creation of this guide.

Defaults!/usr/bin/run-validation !requiretty
Defaults:validations !requiretty
Defaults:mistral !requiretty
mistral ALL = (validations) NOPASSWD:SETENV: /usr/bin/run-validation
mistral ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/chown -h validations\: /tmp/validations_identity_[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_], \
        /usr/bin/chown validations\: /tmp/validations_identity_[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_], \
        !/usr/bin/chown /tmp/validations_identity_* *, !/usr/bin/chown /tmp/validations_identity_*..*
mistral ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rm -f /tmp/validations_identity_[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_], \
        !/usr/bin/rm /tmp/validations_identity_* *, !/usr/bin/rm /tmp/validations_identity_*..*
mistral ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/nova-manage cell_v2 discover_hosts *
mistral ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/tar --ignore-failed-read -C / -cf /tmp/undercloud-backup-*.tar *
mistral ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/chown mistral. /tmp/undercloud-backup-*/filesystem-*.tar
validations ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL

Here you can grant permissions for specific tasks in when executing Mistral workflows from tripleo-common

Give elevated privileges to specific Mistral actions that need to run with elevated privileges.

Give elevated privileges to specific Mistral actions that need to run with elevated privileges.¶

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