Remastersys Sudoers Entry Auto-Removes

[tigerarmy]

I'm a bit puzzled at why this entry is auto removed from my sudoers file on shutdown:

Code:

myuser ALL=(root):NOPASSWD /usr/bin/remastersys-gtk

[fragadelic]

Are you setting it using visudo?

[tigerarmy]

Yep.  I verified even before I posted this.  I have two users.  One with admin privs, then other just regular user. The non-admin is the one I'm giving permission to launch Remastersys.  I add it in with visudo.  Visudo does not exit with errors.  The sudoers line in question does not survive boot.

[fragadelic]

That sounds like an ubuntu bug and has nothing to do with remastersys.  Remastersys does nothing with permissions or authorization stuff like polkit or sudo.  That is all left up to the user.

[tigerarmy]

Well, thanks. I found a workaround.  I find it very suspicious that a bug would remove that line and only that line.  I have several.  It's almost as if it were looking specifically for Remastersys, or some property that Remastersys has that would abjectly remove it.

[tigerarmy]

fragadelic,

I've discover why this is happening.  I forgot about an upstart script that I wrote that modifies sudoers.  With this in consideration, I think this question is now only a distraction and unhelpful to others using Remastersys.  I request it be deleted.

[fragadelic]

Glad you found it.

I try to make sure I don't change anything crucial on the users system unless they know about it and explicitly want it done - eg. changing image files for grub/isolinux/plymouth, etc.

The rest of the remastersys changes happen in the dummysys folder.  This is where empty folders and config changes take place for the live system so that the actual real system is left untouched.