[sudo-users] Parsing the sudoers file

Michael W. Lucas mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com
Tue Sep 24 04:21:25 MDT 2013


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:14:23AM +0100, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On 23 Sep 2013, at 23:29, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> 
> > Surely grep and hostname perhaps with a ssh logged into all systems at
> > once and a little sorting of the produced file on a networked filesystem
> > afterwards is all that you need?
> 
> That would be nice, so long as there weren't too many machines, there was a list of what the machines were, and they were all accessible from a single place.  None of those things are true in my case unfortunately.
> 
> This sounds like I'm being sarcastic. It's not meant to be, sorry:  I dream of working somewhere where the IT infrastructure doesn't resemble the decaying fragments of a collapsed civilisation, but I realise I never will.

Definitely sounds like a something that could be automated with Ansible.

But yes, you need to have information first...

==ml


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