controls::postgresql pg wheel group membership is correct

Overview

The group pg_wheel is explicitly created on a host where the PostgreSQL server is installed. Membership in this group enables an ordinary user account to gain ‘superuser’ access to a database cluster by using the sudo command (See ‘Ensure sudo is configured correctly’ later in this benchmark). Only user accounts authorized to have superuser access should be members of the pg_wheel group.

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