controls::database manager configuration parameter trust clntauth

Overview

Thge TRUST_CLNTAUTH database manager configuration parameter is only active when the authentication parameter is set to CLIENT which is not a recommended setting as discussed in the authentication parameter section. If the parameter is set to CLIENT, the user ID and password are not needed, but if they are provided, authentication will occur at the client. If the parameter is set to SERVER, the user ID and password are needed and will be authenticated at the server.

The recommended value for this parameter is SERVER.

Rationale:

If the server trusts the client to authenticate the connecting user, a malicious user can connect to the database as any user including a database administrator by simply creating that user on the client system.

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Benchmarks

This control is used in the following benchmarks:

Skipping

To deliberately skip this control (e.g. meaning don’t use Puppet to enforce this setting), we provide you with three ways:

1) Add db2_secured::controls::database_manager_configuration_parameter_trust_clntauth: skip to your hiera data. This will skip this control for ALL databases.
2) Add db2_secured::controls::database_manager_configuration_parameter_trust_clntauth::instance_name::dbname: skip to your hiera data. This will skip this control for specified database only.
3) Add an entry with the content database_manager_configuration_parameter_trust_clntauth to the array value db2_secured::skip_list in your hiera data.

Attributes

Attribute Name Short Description
title The database identifier to apply the control to.

title

The database identifier to apply the control to.

All controls need an database identifier to apply the control to. Here is a simple example:

db2_secured::controls::control_name { 'db2inst1/MYDB':}

In this example, the string dbinst1 is the instance, the string MYDB is the database to apply the control to.

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