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With the upcoming changes to rebase onto the RHEL 7 STIG controls, there needs to be a new solution for documentation that is easier to manage and filter. This patch automates the generation of the STIG control documentation in the following way: * A Sphinx extension runs early in the doc build process that writes all of the individual STIG control docs as well as ToC pages. * ToC pages are now sorted by severity, tag, and implementation status. * A giant listing of controls is easier to navigate now. * Docs are generated from metadata in the /doc/metadata directory. New documentation only needs to be added there. (Will explain this in the developer notes in a subsequent patch.) Implements: blueprint security-rhel7-stig Change-Id: I455af1121049f52193e98e2c9cb1ba5d4c292386
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id: V-38481
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status: opt-in
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tag: misc
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---
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**Opt-in required**
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Operating system patching policies vary from organization to organization and
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are typically established based on business requirements and risk tolerance.
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.. note::
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Automatically upgrading packages can provide significant security benefits,
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but they can reduce availability and reliability. Updating packages can
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cause daemons to restart on some systems and they can cause local
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customizations of configuration files to be lost.
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Deployers are **strongly urged** to understand the nature of this change
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and the associated risks prior to enabling automatic upgrades.
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Deployers can enable automatic updates by setting
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``security_unattended_upgrades`` to ``True``:
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.. code-block:: yaml
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security_unattended_upgrades: true
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In Ubuntu, the ``unattended-upgrades`` package is installed and enabled. This
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will apply updates that are made available to the trusty-security (Ubuntu
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14.04) or xenial-security (Ubuntu 16.04) repositories.
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In CentOS, the ``yum-cron`` package is installed and configured to
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automatically apply updates.
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