On (30/09/15 09:38), Jakub Hrozek wrote:
Hi,
to help the OpenSCAP integration, I prepared a wiki page that contains
options which have a security impact -- either positive (drop root) or
negative (ignore certificate validation issues).
I also tried to explain the effect of the options along with the
description. There are some more items that can be included, but I
wasn't sure about them myself, like:
* should obfuscated passwords be mentioned? I wasn't sure because on
one hand it really doesn't provide any benefit, on the other hand,
the option can be used to check a compliance box that requires no
passwords be stored in files..
* should the page warn against the
auth-option-that-shall-not-be-mentioned or politely deny its
existence? :-)
* What about fd_limit ? Should resource consumption be considered
a security property, especially if we already honor system default? I
think here the default is enough, so I didn't document that option.
Please provide your comments or edit the wiki directly. Thanks!
I'm not sure
about security implication but it might be good
to avoid using plantext passwords for authtok in sssd.conf.
ldap_default_authtok_type = password.
I'm not sure about obfuscated_password.
What do you think?
LS