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From: "Gabe Alford" <redhatrises(a)gmail.com>
To: "SCAP Security Guide" <scap-security-guide(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2014 6:43:24 PM
Subject: Re: RHEL 7 Direction
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Shawn Wells < shawn(a)redhat.com > wrote:
On 10/3/14, 3:31 PM, Crawford, Nicholas P CTR USARMY CERDEC (US) wrote:
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> Greetings,
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> I had a couple of questions about the direction the RHEL 7 SSG will be
> going;
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> Particularly with the below new subsystems in 7;
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> gconf vs dconf (GNOME 2 vs GNOME 3)
Some applications do use gconf still, but I believe gnome requires dconf in
RHEL7 since it is GNOME3. There is an existing pull request for converting
most of the gconf settings to dconf.
> Has there been a decision on how to check and remediate with dconf?
> iptables vs firewalld
iptables and firewalld conflict each other so one or the other (preferably
firewalld).
+1 for firewalld due to ability to apply changes runtime (without disrupting
existing connections) + due to concept of zones:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/...
> Has there been a decision on which method will go forward for
> check / remediation?
> chrony vs ntpd
No decision has been made on this as I am aware.
Comparison why chronyd might be preferred before ntpd:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/...
> Has there been a decision on which to use and which will go
> forward for check / remediation?
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Actually, there hasn't been much conversation on this. Thanks for
starting the conversation!
IMO, we should start with system defaults as first/primary goal, then
enable secondary configs in future passes. aka, address firewalld first
then iptables.
If we're able to get both done at the same time, then great -- but focus
should be on system default first.
What does everyone think of such an approach?
+1
Commented on this in previous post.
Thank you && Regards, Jan.
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Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Technologies Team