The tasks in tests/imageprep/_user_accounts.yml that create users did not
specify a primary group for those users - this left the decision to Ansible's
user module, and/or the underlying OS. In Ansible 9+ (ansible-core 2.16+ the
user module defaults to primary group "staff." Earlier don't supply a default,
which releases probably results in a primary group nameed "None" (due to
stringifying the Python singleton of the same name), or whatever the macOS
Directory Services has for no data/NULL.
The invalid GID 4294967295 (MAX_UINT32 == 2**32-1) in the sudo error probably
enters the mix via something similar to sudo CVE-2019-14287.
Fixes#692
See
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79999
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/c69c83c962f987c78af98da0746527df
- https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/minus_1_uid/
> Bruce Wayne : [confused] Am I meant to understand any of that?
> Lucius Fox : Not at all, I just wanted you to know how hard it was.
> -- Batman Begins
By switching to block style (`|`) with clip (no `-` or `+`) the failure
messages don't require quoting and gain a single trailing newline. This causes
Ansible to print them as block style, when using the yaml stdout callback
plugin. As a result the values have one less layer of quoting and quote
escaping, making them much easier to read.
Alex Willmer