controls::log file permissions are set correctly

Overview

The log_file_mode setting determines the file permissions for log files when logging_collector is enabled. The parameter value is expected to be a numeric mode specification in the form accepted by the chmod and umask system calls. (To use the customary octal format, the number must start with a 0 (zero).) The permissions should be set to allow only the necessary access to authorized personnel. In most cases the best setting is 0600, so that only the server owner can read or write the log files. The other commonly useful setting is 0640, allowing members of the owner’s group to read the files, although to make use of that, you will need to alter the log_directory setting to store the log files outside the cluster data directory.

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

Attributes

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

title

The instance to apply the control to.

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

pg_secured::controls::control_name { 'instance':}

In this example, the string instance is the instance to apply the control to.

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