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:

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.

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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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