X2Go Bug report logs - #835
x2gobroker-ssh: cannot execute x2gobroker-agent if agent-query-mode is set to LOCAL

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Package: x2gobroker-ssh; Maintainer for x2gobroker-ssh is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>; Source for x2gobroker-ssh is src:x2gobroker.

Reported by: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>

Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 13:25:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: pending

Found in version 0.0.3.0-preview

Fixed in version 0.0.3.0

Done: X2Go Release Manager <git-admin@x2go.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Package: x2gobroker-ssh
Severity: important
Version: 0.0.3.0-preview

x2gobroker-ssh cannot execute x2gobroker-agent if agent-query-mode is  
set to LOCAL.

Reason:

/usr/bin/x2gobroker-ssh is installed with these permissions:

-r-sr-x--- 1 x2gobroker <x2gobroker-users> 6168 Apr  1 06:24  
/usr/bin/x2gobroker-ssh

That means: only users that are members of the POSIX group  
<x2gobroker-users> (in Debian/Ubuntu, this is configurable via  
DebConf) can launch a fully featured X2Go Session Broker instance via  
SSH brokerage.

A user that is member of group <x2gobroker-users> launches  
x2gobroker-ssh and the process permissions are these:

  real uid: <uidNumber-of-the-user>
  real gid: <gidNumber-if-the-user>
  effective uid: x2gobroker
  effective gid: <gidNumber-if-the-user>

So, the setuid flag on /usr/bin/x2gobroker-ssh changes the effective  
user ID, but not the effective group ID.

If agent-query-mode is set to LOCAL, x2gobroker-ssh directly calls  
/usr/lib/x2go/x2gobroker-agent (via subprocess.Popen) and fails,  
because of insufficient priveleges:

-rwsr-x--- 1 root x2gobroker 6168 Apr  2 06:39 /usr/lib/x2go/x2gobroker-agent

Only users that are members of POSIX group "x2gobroker" can launch the  
x2gobroker-agent script (and gain root priveleges). In a sane  
environment, no user is member of this group (except the user  
"x2gobroker").

Solution:
---------

(root@medoc) {~} # cat /etc/sudoers.d/x2gobroker-ssh
# Allow members of group x2gobroker-users to execute any  
/usr/lib/x2go/x2gobroker-agent
%x2gobroker-users	ALL=(:x2gobroker) /usr/lib/x2go/x2gobroker-agent

If the user launching x2gobroker-ssh is member of the group  
<x2gobroker-users>, then the LOCAL query to the x2gobroker-agent is  
run via sudo. If the evoking user is not a member of the  
<x2gobroker-users> group, then no sudo gets used (e.g. for executing  
the x2gobroker-agent via agent-query-mode SSH or via agent-query-mode  
through the http broker implementation.

A patch is in prep and should be committed soon.

Mike
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