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Old 10-20-2012, 10:09 AM   #1
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Question User permissions to see IPTables rules & packets.


Dear all,
I'm trying to grant access to my account user to see IPTables rules and packets statistics w\o using the Root account.
How may I do it?
I've tried to add the line: user localhost= NOPASSWD: /sbin/iptables -vnxL to my Sudoers file... but stil IPTables blocks me.
It seems like IPTables it-self is blocking the user account and not the system permissions.

P.S I'm using CentOS 6.3 & Fedora 17 in parallel.

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by CrAzYoNi; 10-20-2012 at 12:10 PM. Reason: Solved thanks to Nugat
 
Old 10-20-2012, 10:49 AM   #2
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CrAzYoNi View Post
I'm trying to grant access to my account user to see IPTables rules and packets statistics w\o using the Root account.
How may I do it?
I've tried to add the line: user localhost= NOPASSWD: /sbin/iptables -vnxL to my Sudoers file... but stil IPTables blocks me.
It seems like IPTables it-self is blocking the user account and not the system permissions.
try changing your sudo rule to:
Code:
user ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/iptables -vnxL
 
Old 10-20-2012, 11:00 AM   #3
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It didn't worked for me.

<code>
# cat /etc/sudoers | grep user
user localhost=(root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/iptables -vnxL

##

$ iptables -vnxL
iptables v1.4.14: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Permission denied (you must be root)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
</code>
 
Old 10-20-2012, 11:07 AM   #4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CrAzYoNi View Post
It didn't worked for me.

<code>
# cat /etc/sudoers | grep user
user localhost=(root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/iptables -vnxL

##

$ iptables -vnxL
iptables v1.4.14: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Permission denied (you must be root)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
</code>
when logged in as the user, what does this command tell you?

Code:
sudo -l
(that is a lower case L, not a "one")

Edit:
the "localhost" you've used in your rule must be the hostname of the system. if it isn't, change it to that, or use ALL.

Last edited by nugat; 10-20-2012 at 11:10 AM. Reason: hostname
 
Old 10-20-2012, 11:10 AM   #5
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<code>
$ sudo -l
[sudo] password for user:
Matching Defaults entries for user on this host:
requiretty, env_reset, env_keep="COLORS DISPLAY HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC KDEDIR LS_COLORS", env_keep+="MAIL PS1 PS2 QTDIR USERNAME
LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE", env_keep+="LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES", env_keep+="LC_MONETARY LC_NAME
LC_NUMERIC LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE", env_keep+="LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS _XKB_CHARSET XAUTHORITY",
secure_path=/sbin\:/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin

User user may run the following commands on this host:
(ALL) ALL
</code>

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Old 10-20-2012, 11:13 AM   #6
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i'm confused, did you run "sudo -l" as root or as the user? is there a third username in the mix?

did you see my edit to my previous post?
 
Old 10-20-2012, 11:18 AM   #7
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I've run "sudo -l" as the user, just after creating a new tab on my Deksotp (Gnome) env.
There is another user account instead of "user" which I'm just replacing here in the output.

And I've noticed your edit + tried ALL & Localhost already.
I'm using several hostnames to my system... localhost is replying to pings though (as the local machine).
 
Old 10-20-2012, 11:26 AM   #8
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i didn't notice if you stated this: are you trying to run the command with sudo in front of it? e.g.:
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sudo /sbin/iptables -vnxL
 
Old 10-20-2012, 11:29 AM   #9
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Actually, not.
But when I do that, with sudo in the beginning, I still need to provide password - in order to get the output - which works then.
 
Old 10-20-2012, 11:48 AM   #10
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according to your (ALL) ALL when you run "sudo -l", it seems as though that rule is overriding your iptables-specific one.

can you comment out that (ALL) ALL rule? is that in /etc/sudoers or in a /etc/sudoers.d/* file?
 
Old 10-20-2012, 12:09 PM   #11
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Nugat, THANKS!
Commenting the %wheel ALL=(ALL) solved by issue, thanks a lot!
 
Old 10-20-2012, 12:10 PM   #12
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A-ha! so you were in the wheel group. glad you got it sorted.
 
Old 09-21-2017, 03:23 AM   #13
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zabbix server remote shell Permission denied

iptables v1.4.7: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Permission denied (you must be root)

on the zabbix-agent server You could try to add "AllowRoot=1" to /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
Use echo AllowRoot=1 >> /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
then restart zabbix-agent
/etc/init.d/zabbix-agent restart

on the zabbix-server you could run you own shell again.
 
  


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