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ansible-hardening/doc/metadata/rhel6/V-38498.rst
Major Hayden e57593dfd4 Automate the STIG documentation 
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
2016-09-09 14:43:30 +00:00

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---id: V-38498 status: implemented tag: misc ---

Ubuntu and CentOS set the current audit log (the one that is actively being written to) to 0600 so that only the root user can read and write to it. The older, rotated logs are set to 0400 since they should not receive any more writes.

The STIG requirement states that log files must have mode 0640 or less. The security role will remove any permissions that are not allowed by the STIG (u-x,g-wx,o-rwx).