What does priority mean? about puppet-sudo

[anl]

Take a look at the end of conf.pp; it's used to order filenames in $sudo_config_dir:

file { "${priority}_${name}":
  ensure  => $ensure,
  path    => "${sudo_config_dir}${priority}_${name}",
  owner   => 'root',
  group   => $sudo::params::config_file_group,
  mode    => '0440',
  source  => $source,
  content => $content_real,

[kithokit]

Would the order of the file names influences the configuration of sudoers file? That's what I wanna ask. Thanks

[anl]

Yes - trying not to go too far afield from the scope of this module, from sudoers(5):

  When multiple entries match for a user, they are applied in order.
  Where there are multiple matches, the last match is used (which is not
  necessarily the most specific match).

and

  sudo will read each file in /etc/sudoers.d, skipping file names that
  end in ~ or contain a . character to avoid causing problems with
  package manager or editor temporary/backup files.  Files are parsed in
  sorted lexical order.

[kithokit]

It is useful. Thanks

[ITBlogger]

Yes, so higher priority (larger number) wins when there's a match.

Similar to adding zz to the front of a sudoers.d/ filename so that it is sorted to the bottom and thus "wins" if there's a match