controls::secure sysmaint authority
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 sysmaint_group parameter defines the system administrator group that possesses the system maintenance (SYSMAINT) authority. It is recommended that the sysmaint_group group contains authorized users only.
Rationale
If an account that possesses this authority is compromised or used in a malicious manner, the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data in the DB2 instance will be at increased risk.
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::secure_sysmaint_authority: skip to your hiera data. This will skip this control for ALL systems.
3) Add an entry with the content secure_sysmaint_authority to the array value db2_secured::skip_list in your hiera data.
Benchmarks
This control is used in the following benchmarks:
- db10 CIS V1.1.0 - paragraph 7.3
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.
