Found while running the policy matrix and NAT/WAN scenario in VMs:
- ansipa-enforce-policies.sh and the dev_security-scan generated script called
`hostname -f`, but the hostname binary (inetutils) is not installed on a
minimal Arch system, so the enforcer aborted with "hostname: command not
found" on every run. Add an ansipa_fqdn() helper (hostnamectl / getent /
/etc/hostname / kernel-hostname fallback chain) and use it; inline the same
fallback in the standalone scan script.
- Fix two stacked bugs that meant CheckMK push mode — the only monitoring
transport that works when a client is behind NAT — never functioned:
* ansipa-checkmk-setup.sh referenced IPA_ADMIN_PASS in the DONE_FLAG
early-exit path, but that variable was assigned only afterwards, so every
rerun kinit'd with an empty password, failed silently, and skipped the
push-mode request writer. Resolve config before the early exit.
* _write_push_requests parsed `ipa hostgroup-show dev_mon_base` members with
awk that did `next` on the "Member hosts:" line — but ipa prints members on
that same line, so the only line with hostnames was discarded and no push
request was ever written. Rewrite the awk to capture the label line's value
plus wrapped continuation lines. Verified end-to-end: requests are written
and CheckMK flips the host to cmk_agent_connection=push-agent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUhrcFU8J1Hnf7vNqNxZNi
The 1550-line ansipa-enforce-policies.sh is replaced by a slim orchestrator
that sources policy files from policies.d/ — one file per policy type — via
a shared lib/ansipa-policy.sh that consolidates all IPA group discovery into
two queries (one host-show, one group-find) instead of five or more.
New files:
- ansible/lib/ansipa-policy.sh shared constants, log/warn, _ansipa_discover(),
_smb_parse_cred(), _ansipa_sync_policystore()
- ansible/policies.d/dev_daemon.sh
- ansible/policies.d/dev_timeshift-backup.sh
- ansible/policies.d/dev_security-scan.sh
- ansible/policies.d/dev_no-local-users.sh
- ansible/policies.d/dev_local-sudo.sh
- ansible/policies.d/dev_ssh.sh
- ansible/policies.d/dev_mon.sh includes usr_mon_logins (same CMK dep)
- ansible/policies.d/usr_admin.sh
- ansible/policies.d/usr_block-binary.sh
- ansible/policies.d/usr_prt.sh
- ansible/policies.d/usr_scan-notify.sh
- ansible/policies.d/usr_smb.sh
- ansible/policies.d/usr_policystore.sh NEW: auto-mount ~/policystore for
usr_smb_adm_policystore members
The policies.d/ folder on the FreeIPA container is exposed as an SMB share
(ansipa-policystore) so admins can live-edit policy files without Ansible.
The enforcer syncs from the share before each run; cached local files are
used as fallback when SMB is unreachable.
- ansipa-smb-setup.sh: adds ansipa-policystore share + smb-policystore system
user + usr_smb_adm_policystore IPA group with auto-generated credential
- deploy-ansipa-policies.yml: deploys lib/ and policies.d/ to enrolled clients;
adds optional seed_policystore task for bootstrap
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki