[PATCH 0/4] support for alternate titles

Kevin Spargur kspargur at redhat.com
Tue Sep 4 16:46:22 UTC 2012


On Sep 4, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Jeffrey Blank <blank at eclipse.ncsc.mil> wrote:

> This commit set provides support for writing alternate titles for the Rules in
> the XCCDF content in scap-security-guide. Although this defies a strategy of
> leveraging a common body of high-quality SCAP content and incurs additional
> costs, it was expressed as a necessity.

If there is concern over a rule title can't we come to a consensus on it instead of having each rule define several alternate titles?  What is driving this requirement?


> 
> To synchronize an alternate titles file (currently only for the STIG profile):
> $ make alt-titles
> 
> This will cause input/utils/sync-alt-titles.py to includes a placeholder for an
> alternate Rule title for every Rule in the specified (currently only
> stig-server) Profile. The short title is also included and synchronized as an
> aide to data entry.
> 
> A new transform (xccdf-alt-titles.xslt) performs replacement of the concise,
> broadly-acceptable title with whatever title language is desired instead.
> Currently, this is activated in the Makerule table-stig.
> 
> 
> Jeffrey Blank (4):
> new file (alt-titles-stig.xml) that enables entering alternate titles
>   for Rules
> new transform to replace concise, broadly-acceptable titles with
>   alternative titles in XCCDF
> helper script to create alternate titles files and link it to Rules
>   in a XCCDF Profile      * short title is also synchronized as an
>   aide to data entry
> added new Makerules to insert alternate titles, create STIG tables
>   with them
> 
> RHEL6/Makefile                            |   11 +-
> RHEL6/input/auxiliary/alt-titles-stig.xml |  455 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> RHEL6/transforms/xccdf-alt-titles.xslt    |   36 +++
> RHEL6/utils/sync-alt-titles.py            |   84 ++++++
> 4 files changed, 584 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 RHEL6/input/auxiliary/alt-titles-stig.xml
> create mode 100644 RHEL6/transforms/xccdf-alt-titles.xslt
> create mode 100755 RHEL6/utils/sync-alt-titles.py
> 
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