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leam hall leamhall at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 19:54:39 UTC 2014


The actual RHEL 7 STIG, if it follows RHEL 6 timelines, will be out right
before RHEL 8.

To some degree you can use RHEL 5 and 6 as guidelines but they are no more
official than a blind guess.


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 3:52 PM, JENNINGS, JARED L CTR USAF AFMC 96 SK/CCI <
jared.jennings.ctr at us.af.mil> wrote:

> Hi, I'm Jared Jennings. I work under contract as an admin at the US Air
> Force SEEK EAGLE Office (AFSEO). Engineers here deal with the problem of
> aircraft-store compatibility, where "store" means "something you put on the
> aircraft," like a missile, bomb or fuel tank. There's lots of modelling and
> simulation going on here, on Windows, Linux and Mac workstations, and Linux
> HPC clusters. I make the Linux and Mac stuff compliant with STIGs, and
> document the compliance.
>
> So I've built CMITS (Configuration Management for IT Systems), out of
> Puppet, LaTeX and Python. Folks with DoD certificates can check it out from
> <https://software.forge.mil/svn/repos/dodpuppet/cmits-release>. Besides
> configuring RHEL5, RHEL6 and Snow Leopard hosts, it builds documentation
> that answers the questions, "Do we have everything covered? How are we
> complying with requirement X? Why are we not complying with requirement Y?
> Requirement Z says something should be written down; where is it?"
>
> Now, RHEL7 is out. Dave and Gunnar have been going on about it for months <
> http://dgshow.org/>. I want to run it. But I need a STIG to comply with.
> And here is a community where I can help build such a thing. Hello,
> community!
>
>  -- Jared Jennings, RHCE, Network Administrator, SURVICE Engineering Co.
>
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