controls::review roles

Overview

Roles provide several advantages that make it easier to manage privileges in a database system. Security administrators can control access to their databases in a way that mirrors the structure of their organizations (they can create roles in the database that map directly to the job functions in their organizations). The assignment of privileges is simplified. Instead of granting the same set of privileges to each individual user in a particular job function, the administrator can grant this set of privileges to a role representing that job function and then grant that role to each user in that job function.

Rationale: Reviewing the roles within a database helps minimize the possibility of unwanted access.

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Benchmarks

This control is used in the following benchmarks:

• DB2 Database 10 CIS V1.1.0 - paragraph 8.1

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

Attributes

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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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