controls::set user extension is installed

Overview

Even when reducing and limiting the access to the superuser role as described earlier in this benchmark, it is still difficult to determine who accessed the superuser role and what actions were taken using that role. As such, it is ideal to prevent anyone from logging in as the superuser and forcing them to escalate their role. This model is used at the OS level by the use of sudo and should be emulated in the database. The set_user extension allows for this setup.

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