Ok, so how do we make it happen?
Trevor
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Shawn Wells <shawn(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 10/4/13 8:06 AM, Josh Kayse wrote:
> On 10/04/2013 07:40 AM, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
>
>> Is Augeas an option?
>>
>> This seems like the perfect opportunity to solidify the Augeas lenses
>> regarding security settings while making life easier for everyone.
>>
>> Trevor
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Shawn Wells <shawn(a)redhat.com
>> <mailto:shawn@redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/3/13 3:11 PM, fcaviggi(a)redhat.com <mailto:fcaviggi@redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> As a starting point for writing remediation fixes in the SSG - so,
>>> I did the following:
>>>
>>> $ ls ~//scap-security-guide/RHEL6/**input/checks//*.xml | awk
>>> '{
>>> print $1 }' | sed s/\.[^\.]*$// > ~/checks
>>> $ ls ~//scap-security-guide/RHEL6/**input/fixes//*.sh | awk '{
>>> print $1 }' | sed s/\.[^\.]*$// > ~/fixes
>>> $ sdiff ~/fixes ~/checks | less
>>>
>>> There's fair a bit of work to be done for the fix remediations...
>>>
>>> Since I'm new to the project, I was wondering if there was any
>>> ideas or standards to how the SSG should distribute some of these
>>> fixes - for example - a wholesale replacement of the audit.rules
>>> and auditd.conf might be preferable than doing piecemeal sed's.
>>>
>>
>> It'd be omgz easier to `cp /usr/share/doc/audit-*/stig.**rules
>> /etc/audit.rules`, and that likely is the right choice during an
>> initial provisioning process. But then SysAdmins tailor audit rules,
>> the system evolves, and we need to evaluate the audit.rules file
>> against specific auditing guidance items after the pristine
>> audit.rules template is manipulated.
>>
>> So, if a single rule must be remediated, we can't blow away the
>> whole audit.rules file. Super fun sed scripts it is =/
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>
> I think that augeas is a good idea. We need to be careful that rules
> that are inserted in to audit.rules happen before any '-e 2' line (if one
> exists). Otherwise they will fail to be inserted because the audit rules
> become locked.
>
> -josh
>
Augeas and puppet would be great, their downside is they don't ship
natively with RHEL :( Part of the goal is to enable the remediation with
native tooling first. IMO, Augeas scripts would be *fantastic* for Aqueduct!
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