On May 30, 2018, at 08:03 AM, Pavel Březina <pbrez...@redhat.com> wrote:
On 05/29/2018 03:03 PM, Marek Haicman wrote: Pavel, can you help us with authconfig? :) On 05/29/2018 01:08 PM, Dan White wrote: On May 29, 2018, at 05:26 AM, Marek Haicman <mhaic...@redhat.com> wrote: On 05/27/2018 08:45 PM, Dan White wrote: On May 27, 2018, at 12:02 PM, Šimon Lukašík <sluka...@redhat.com <mailto:sluka...@redhat.com>> wrote: On 05/25/2018 11:06 PM, Dan White wrote: I just messed up a baker’s dozen of RHEL 6 virtual machines by hand editing /etc/pam.d files system-auth-ac and password-auth-ac I was able to un-mess 8 of them with an authconfig command. The other 5 are in various stages of recovery. One had a snapshot but the other 4 are Oracle servers that cannot be snapshot because of shared storage. Anyway, what I am looking for here is some brainstorming toward implementing security settings with authconfig commands rather than hand editing the files that utility can alter. Thanks. I am not sure this is right forum for this. Nevertheless, I wouldn't be surprised this brainstorming ended before it even started as You didn't provide us particular peculiarities you are faced with and thus left us with very general (and thus hard) task at hand. Kind regards, ~š. OK, let’s start with RHEL-07-010200 - Set PAM's Password Hashing Algorithm - CCE-27104-9 The Remediation shell script says: |AUTH_FILES[0]="/etc/pam.d/system-auth" AUTH_FILES[1]="/etc/pam.d/password-auth" for pamFile in "${AUTH_FILES[@]}" do if ! grep -q "^password.*sufficient.*pam_unix.so.*sha512" $pamFile; then sed -i --follow-symlinks "/^password.*sufficient.*pam_unix.so/ s/$/ sha512/" $pamFile fi done| But up at the top of both of those files it says : *"User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run”* Here are more: RHEL-07-010119 - Set Password Retry Prompts Permitted Per-Session - CCE-27160-1 RHEL-07-010270 - Limit Password Reuse - CCE-26923-3 RHEL-07-010290 - Prevent Log In to Accounts With Empty Password - CCE-27286-4 RHEL-07-010320 - Set Deny For Failed Password Attempts - CCE-27350-8 RHEL-07-010320 - Set Interval For Counting Failed Password Attempts - CCE-27297-1 RHEL-07-010320 - Set Lockout Time For Failed Password Attempts - CCE-26884-7 RHEL-07-010330 - Configure the root Account for Failed Password Attempts - CCE-80353-6 Every one, in so many words, directs the hand editing of /etc/pam.d/system-auth(-ac) and/or /etc/pam.d/password-auth(-ac) Hopefully, this provides sufficient "particular peculiarities" Back to my original question: How might one use the /authconfig/ command to remediate each one of those ? How about it ? I will be tinkering on my own as time allows and I will gladly share anything I discover. Hello Dan, historically, we have tried to use authconfig for some of the remediations (smartcards), as it was kind of obvious choice, right? Well, it fired back a bit, because you cannot really combine authconfig and manual fixes. So after you made some of the more complex fixes by hand (fixes that authconfig was not able to deliver) and then tried to fix a triviality using authconfig tool, it would revert your manual change. One of the problems of old authconfig (got added in RHEL7.4 I think, RHEL6 is affected) is no support for `faillock`. So you cannot really fix this one. So we gave up, and reverted to fixing everything by old style sed-ing :( Regards, Marek I am still looking for suggestions. Here is an updated list of OpenSCAP references and the partial results of my tinkering: Reference: https://static.open-scap.org/ssg-guides/ssg-rhel6-guide-stig-rhel6-disa.html RHEL-06-000000 - Set Password Retry Prompts Permitted Per-Session - CCE-27123-9 - hand changes not overwritten by authconfig RHEL-06-000030 - Prevent Log In to Accounts With Empty Password - CCE-27038-9 - hand changes not overwritten by authconfig RHEL-06-000056 - Set Password Strength Minimum Digit Characters - CCE-26374-9 - hand changes not overwritten by authconfig RHEL-06-000057 - Set Password Strength Minimum Uppercase Characters - CCE-26601-5 - hand changes not overwritten by authconfig RHEL-06-000058 - Set Password Strength Minimum Special Characters - CCE-26409-3 - hand changes not overwritten by authconfig RHEL-06-000059 - Set Password Strength Minimum Lowercase Characters - CCE-26631-2 - hand changes not overwritten by authconfig RHEL-06-000060 - Set Password Strength Minimum Different Characters - CCE-26615-5 - hand changes not overwritten by authconfig RHEL-06-000061 - Set Deny For Failed Password Attempts - CCE-26844-1 --- PROBLEM !!! authconfig wipes changes and cannot set them RHEL-06-000062 - Set Password Hashing Algorithm in /etc/pam.d/system-auth - CCE-26303-8 settable with authconfig (--passalgo=sha512) RHEL-06-000274 - Limit Password Reuse - CCE-26741-9 --- PROBLEM !!! authconfig wipes changes and cannot set them RHEL-06-000299 - Set Password to Maximum of Three Consecutive Repeating Characters - CCE-27227-8 not yet tested RHEL-06-000356 - Set Lockout Time For Failed Password Attempts - CCE-27110-6 not yet tested RHEL-06-000357 - Set Interval For Counting Failed Password Attempts - CCE-27215-3 not yet tested Reference: https://static.open-scap.org/ssg-guides/ssg-rhel7-guide-stig-rhel7-disa.html RHEL-07-010200 - Set PAM's Password Hashing Algorithm - CCE-27104-9 settable with authconfig (--passalgo=sha512) RHEL-07-010119 - Set Password Retry Prompts Permitted Per-Session - CCE-27160-1 - hand changes not overwritten by authconfig RHEL-07-010270 - Limit Password Reuse - CCE-26923-3 --- PROBLEM !!! authconfig wipes changes and cannot set them RHEL-07-010290 - Prevent Log In to Accounts With Empty Password - CCE-27286-4 - hand changes not overwritten by authconfig RHEL-07-010320 - Set Deny For Failed Password Attempts - CCE-27350-8 --- PROBLEM !!! authconfig wipes hand changes and cannot set all of them (PARTIAL) --enablefaillock --faillockargs="deny=3 unlock_time=never fail_interval=900" RHEL-07-010320 - Set Interval For Counting Failed Password Attempts - CCE-27297-1 not yet tested RHEL-07-010320 - Set Lockout Time For Failed Password Attempts - CCE-26884-7 not yet tested RHEL-07-010330 - Configure the root Account for Failed Password Attempts - CCE-80353-6 not yet tested Would a BugZilla ticket get any traction ? Who maintains authconfig ? BZ for what? I'm not sure what exactly do you want to achieve with authconfig. Some of these changes can be done through authconfig, for example it can configure pam_pwquality for password complexity. See authconfig --help for all the options. Manual changes will be overwritten next time authconfig is called. That is the whole point of the query. This is for security hardening. Authconfig removes stuff that needs to stay in. I am suggesting updates for authconfig to provide the required settings it currently removes. Dan White | d_e_wh...@icloud.com ------------------------------------------------ “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” (Bill Waterson: Calvin & Hobbes)
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