[PATCH] The name of the check did not reflect its content.

Maura Dailey maura at eclipse.ncsc.mil
Tue Oct 15 20:28:25 UTC 2013


The alternative, by the way, is to delete the check entirely, if no 
profiles reference it.

On 10/15/2013 04:05 PM, Maura Dailey wrote:
> Somewhat confusingly, the name of the check for pam_cracklib's minclass option was accounts_password_minclass_login_defs.xml. I corrected it and the id of the check inside the file.
>
> - Maura Dailey
>
> Signed-off-by: Maura Dailey <maura at eclipse.ncsc.mil>
> ---
>   .../accounts_password_pam_cracklib_minclass.xml    |   43 ++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 RHEL6/input/checks/accounts_password_pam_cracklib_minclass.xml
>
> diff --git a/RHEL6/input/checks/accounts_password_pam_cracklib_minclass.xml b/RHEL6/input/checks/accounts_password_pam_cracklib_minclass.xml
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..539164b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/RHEL6/input/checks/accounts_password_pam_cracklib_minclass.xml
> @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
> +<def-group>
> +  <definition class="compliance" id="accounts_password_pam_cracklib_minclass" version="1">
> +    <metadata>
> +      <title>Set Password minclass Requirements</title>
> +      <affected family="unix">
> +        <platform>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6</platform>
> +      </affected>
> +      <description>The password minclass should meet minimum
> +      requirements using pam_cracklib</description>
> +    </metadata>
> +    <criteria>
> +      <criterion comment="Conditions for minclass are satisfied"
> +                 test_ref="test_password_pam_cracklib_minclass" />
> +    </criteria>
> +  </definition>
> +
> +  <ind:textfilecontent54_test check="all"
> +                              comment="check the configuration of /etc/pam.d/system-auth"
> +                              id="test_password_pam_cracklib_minclass" version="1">
> +    <ind:object object_ref="obj_password_pam_cracklib_minclass" />
> +    <ind:state state_ref="state_password_pam_cracklib_minclass" />
> +  </ind:textfilecontent54_test>
> +
> +  <ind:textfilecontent54_state id="state_password_pam_cracklib_minclass"
> +                               version="1">
> +    <ind:instance datatype="int">1</ind:instance>
> +    <ind:subexpression datatype="int"
> +                       operation="less than or equal"
> +                       var_ref="var_password_pam_cracklib_minclass" />
> +  </ind:textfilecontent54_state>
> +
> +  <external_variable comment="External variable for pam_cracklib minclass"
> +                     datatype="int" id="var_password_pam_cracklib_minclass"
> +                     version="1" />
> +
> +  <ind:textfilecontent54_object id="obj_password_pam_cracklib_minclass"
> +                                version="1">
> +    <ind:path>/etc/pam.d</ind:path>
> +    <ind:filename>system-auth</ind:filename>
> +    <ind:pattern operation="pattern match">^[\s]*password[\s]+(?:(?:required)|(?:requisite))[\s]+[\w_\.\-=\s]+[\s]minclass=(-?\d+)(?:[\s]|$)</ind:pattern>
> +    <ind:instance datatype="int" operation="less than or equal">1</ind:instance>
> +  </ind:textfilecontent54_object>
> +</def-group>



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