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!