controls::disable grants during restore
Overview
Puppet controls are Puppet defined types that ensure a certain security control is implemented. Puppet changes the system in order to make the system compliant.
Description of the control
The 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.
Skipping
To deliberately skip this control (e.g. meaning don’t use Puppet to enforce this setting), we provide you with two ways:
1) Add db2_secured::controls::disable_grants_during_restore: skip to your hiera data. This will skip this control for ALL systems.
3) Add an entry with the content disable_grants_during_restore to the array value db2_secured::skip_list in your hiera data.
Benchmarks
This control is used in the following benchmarks:
- db11 CIS V1.0.0 - paragraph 3.2.3
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.
