controls::disable grants during restore
Overview
he DB2_RESTORE_GRANT_ADMIN_AUTHORITIES
registry variable determines whether the authorization ID of the user performing a restore is granted administrative authorities (SECADM
, DBADM
, DATAACCESS
, and ACCESSCTRL
authorities) on the restored database. It is typically used when restoring a database on a server where the original database creator account does not exist. It is recommended that this variable not be set except when specifically performing a restore where you wish these privileges to be granted so they are not accidentally granted.
Rationale:
Use of this registry variable may grant administrative authorities accidentally if the value is left on during normal operations and a restore is run.
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Benchmarks
This control is used in the following benchmarks:
- DB2 Database 11 CIS V1.0.0.draft - paragraph 3.2.3
- DB2 Database 11 CIS V1.0.0 - paragraph 3.2.3
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::disable_grants_during_restore: skip
to your hiera data. This will skip this control for ALL databases.
2) Add db2_secured::controls::disable_grants_during_restore::instance_name::dbname: skip
to your hiera data. This will skip this control for specified database only.
3) Add an entry with the content disable_grants_during_restore
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.