+1 for leaving this service enabled

On Jun 2, 2014 1:42 PM, "Shawn Wells" <shawn@redhat.com> wrote:

On 6/2/14, 2:01 PM, Rui Pedro Bernardino wrote:
This patch proposes to fix the missing oval check for 'disable_anacron' rule.

Signed-off-by: Rui Bernardino <rui-p-bernardino@telecom.pt>
---
  .../6/input/checks/templates/services_disabled.csv |    1 +
  RHEL/6/input/services/cron.xml                     |    1 +
  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/RHEL/6/input/checks/templates/services_disabled.csv b/RHEL/6/input/checks/templates/services_disabled.csv
index 7045072..c819e51 100644
--- a/RHEL/6/input/checks/templates/services_disabled.csv
+++ b/RHEL/6/input/checks/templates/services_disabled.csv
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
  abrtd,abrt
  acpid,
+anacron,
  autofs,
  certmonger,
  cgred,
diff --git a/RHEL/6/input/services/cron.xml b/RHEL/6/input/services/cron.xml index 983d9ed..4f57af6 100644
--- a/RHEL/6/input/services/cron.xml
+++ b/RHEL/6/input/services/cron.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ additional functionality, <tt>anacron</tt> could needlessly increase the possibl  attack surface for an intruder.</description>  <ref nist="CM-7" />  <ident cce="27158-5" />
+<oval id="service_anacron_disabled" />
  </Rule>

--
Rui Pedro Bernardino
CTE2
Aveiro
PT Inovação e Sistemas


I think, long ago, this was mapped to NIST 800-53 CM7 and just keeps getting inherited.

Yes, there is something to say about disabling non-essential services, but really, anacron? IIRC it was either Spencer or Trevor who called out that in the era of modern computing, not all systems are left up 24/7 (and thus Anacron provides a valuable service).

This is no longer included in the STIG, was inherited from RHEL5 USGCB into the draft RHEL6 USGCB (which drove inclusion into the evolving FISMA and NIST profiles). CS2 also calls it, but I believe that's from inheritance too.

Objections to dropping this rule from everything but CIS/C2S (where it's still called out, but we're not the upstream of their policy yet)?
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