controls::orphaned users are dropped from sql server databases

Overview

A database user for which the corresponding SQL Server login is undefined or is incorrectly defined on a server instance cannot log in to the instance and is referred to as orphaned and should be removed.

Orphan users should be removed to avoid potential misuse of those broken users in any way.

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

Attributes

Attribute Name Short Description
title The database to apply the control to.

title

The database to apply the control to.

All controls need an database to apply the control to. Here is a simple example:

mssql_secured::controls::control_name {'MSSQLSERVER':}

In this example, the string DB is the database to apply the control to.

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