openstack-ansible-security/doc/metadata/rhel6/V-38452.rst
Major Hayden 3c19f00a7f [Docs] Metadata cleanup
This patch adds the right tags to each piece of metadata and corrects
small errors found in the deployer notes.

Closes-bug: 1595669
Change-Id: Ic04aaad85ebf111be5a0bdb01a350442fdea1433
2016-09-12 14:27:49 -05:00

1.1 KiB

---id: V-38452 status: exception tag: package ---

Although Ubuntu provides the debsums command for checking the contents of files installed from packages, it cannot perform a detailed level of checking sufficient to meet the STIG requirement. Some packages are not shipped with MD5 checksums for all files. Deployers are encouraged to use debsums -c regularly to check for alterations in as many packages as possible.

Ubuntu does not currently have a capability to check file permissions, ownership, or group ownership against the permissions that were originally set when the package was installed.

In CentOS, the rpm command can verify package contents, ownership, group ownership, and permissions after the package has been installed. However, many configuration files are changed by the security role and this will cause the verification to fail.

Deployers should utilize the monitoring capabilities of the aide package (which is installed by other Ansible tasks in this role) to determine which configuration files, libraries or binaries may have been changed.