[PATCH 0/4] support for alternate titles

Jeffrey Blank blank at eclipse.ncsc.mil
Tue Sep 4 17:01:52 UTC 2012


DISA FSO. And I tried to make it clear that it is very problematic with
regard to their stated strategy (as well as our strategy of reducing
duplication).  But this is within the bounds of the project's
flexibility, and is done in a way that later convergence would still be
easy.




On 09/04/2012 12:46 PM, Kevin Spargur wrote:
> 
> 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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