[PATCH] Adding remediation fix for accounts_max_concurrent_login_sessions

fcaviggi at redhat.com fcaviggi at redhat.com
Thu Oct 3 20:06:10 UTC 2013


Shawn,

This is probably a better approach - I'll resubmit the patch for 
accounts_max_concurrent_login_sessions - do you think we should probably 
do the same thing for disable_user_coredumps?

-Frank



On 10/03/2013 02:25 PM, Shawn Wells wrote:
> On 10/3/13 1:08 PM, Frank Caviggia wrote:
>>
>> 0001-Adding-remediation-fix-for-accounts_max_concurrent_l.patch
>>
>>
>>  From 3616e7abaf9d9b1c71d211ff435c77ef96c297d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Frank Caviggia<fcaviggi at redhat.com>
>> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 12:48:54 -0400
>> Subject: [PATCH] Adding remediation fix for
>>   accounts_max_concurrent_login_sessions
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Frank Caviggia<fcaviggi at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   RHEL6/input/fixes/bash/accounts_max_concurrent_login_sessions.sh | 4 ++++
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 RHEL6/input/fixes/bash/accounts_max_concurrent_login_sessions.sh
>>
>> diff --git a/RHEL6/input/fixes/bash/accounts_max_concurrent_login_sessions.sh b/RHEL6/input/fixes/bash/accounts_max_concurrent_login_sessions.sh
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..0ec1e06
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/RHEL6/input/fixes/bash/accounts_max_concurrent_login_sessions.sh
>> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
>> +source ./templates/support.sh
>> +populate max_concurrent_login_sessions_value
>> +
>> +echo "*     hard   maxlogins    $max_concurrent_login_sessions_value" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
>> -- 1.8.3.1
>
> There are two failure conditions which we'll need to remediate:
> - maxlogins value to high
> - maxlogins not set (which your patch handles)
>
> Here's an example of how to address both:
> https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/scap-security-guide.git/tree/RHEL6/input/fixes/bash/accounts_password_minlen_login_defs.sh
>
> A sed command will change any existing values, and should there not be 
> any, the appropriate string is concatenated to the file. What do you 
> think of that approach? I wasn't clever enough to get everything into 
> a single one-liner, not sure if the efficiency could be increased.
>
>
>
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