On 9/5/13 2:26 PM, Paul Tittle (Contractor) wrote:
Using deny_password_attempts as an example, it says:
Add the following lines immediately below the|pam_unix.so|statement
in|AUTH|section of|/etc/pam.d/system-auth|:
|auth [default=die] pam_faillock.so authfail deny=3 unlock_time=604800
fail_interval=900|
|auth required pam_faillock.so authsucc deny=3 unlock_time=604800 fail_interval=900|
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Looking at input/checks/accounts_passwords_pam_faillock_deny.xml ,
accounts_passwords_pam_faillock_deny seems to test for the bottom line
in /etc/pam.d/system-auth and the top line in
/etc/pam.d/password-auth, but password-auth is not mentioned in the
deny_password_attempts description.
For the other two deny_password_attempts tests, it's a similar
situation. Is the test wrong or the description wrong?
Thanks for reporting this -- and even more so for providing the actual
XCCDF and OVAL names!
These lines should likely be in both system-auth and password-auth. For
example, on a stock RHEL6 image, SSH will use password-auth (not
system-auth) as defined in /etc/pam.d/sshd:
#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_sepermit.so
auth include password-auth
account required pam_nologin.so
account include password-auth
password include password-auth
# pam_selinux.so close should be the first session rule
session required pam_selinux.so close
session required pam_loginuid.so
# pam_selinux.so open should only be followed by sessions to be
executed in the user context
session required pam_selinux.so open env_params
session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke
session include password-auth
Looks like we might have to update both prose and OVAL for this...