controls::secure the r runtime path

Overview

The r_path parameter contains the directory under which the R runtime is installed. The R runtime is used for running R stored procedures and user-defined functions. It is recommended that the owner of this directory is bin on Linux and AIX, and a member of the Db2 administration group on Windows. The directory should have read and execute permission for all users, but only write permission for the owner.

Rationale:

Restricting access to the R runtime will help ensure that only an authorized runtime is used for running R routines within Db2.

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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_the_r_runtime_path: skip to your hiera data. This will skip this control for ALL databases.
2) Add db2_secured::controls::secure_the_r_runtime_path::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_the_r_runtime_path 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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