controls::secure permissions for the log overflow location

Overview

The overflowlogpath parameter specifies a location for Db2® databases to find log files needed for a rollforward operation, as well as where to store active log files retrieved from the archive. It also gives a location for finding and storing log files needed for using db2ReadLog API. It is recommended that the directory used be set to full access for Db2 administrator accounts and read and execute only for all other accounts.

Rationale:

The overflow log path can contain log files containing user data. Access to the directory pointed to by that path should be restricted through permissions to help ensure that the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the logs are protected.

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