On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:08 AM Watson Sato <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:57 PM Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Personally, I think that anything marked as %config should not be checked
>> because they are allowed to vary anyway.
>>
>
> I'm leaning towards ignoring config files in OVAL check, and making it
> explicit in rule description.
> And add a note with command that would output list of config files that do
> not match their rpm hash,
> in case you would like to review altered config files manually.
>

This isn't a great fix and is more of a bandaid. It would be better for us
to open BZs and fix this in the troublesome RPMs spec files.


>
>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 8:52 AM Watson Sato <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Regarding rule "Verify file hashes with RPM", which files resides here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ComplianceAsCode/content/tree/master/linux_os/guide/system/software/integrity/software-integrity/rpm_verification/rpm_verify_hashes
>>>
>>> From description in rule.yml I understand that altered files should be
>>> reported and, altered configuration files should be reported analyzed
>>> individually.
>>> 1. Is this the intended action? To evaluate altered configuration files?
>>>
>>> Looking at the OVAL check, it mostly cares about altered files under
>>> /bin, /sbin ,/lib ,/lib64 or /usr (mainly executables and libraries
>>> according to comment).
>>> 2. Is this restriction only to optimize for search of libraries and
>>> binaries?
>>> I see a slight misalignment between check and description. This way we
>>> won't be catching much changes in config files.
>>>
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