Content Testing (contest)

This is a repository of publicly-available tests used for testing ComplianceAsCode/content on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Parameters

(TODO: Probably document this on a better place.)

• CONTEST_SILENT
  • set to 1 to verbosely report only genuine oscap rule failures
  • other results are unaffected (for now)

Workarounds

(TODO: Find a better place for this?)

The VM-using /hardening tests do two hacks to allow login after hardening:

• -oPermitRootLogin=yes in OPTIONS of /etc/sysconfig/sshd
  • This is to bypass ssh-denied root login. Doing this seems easier than trying to bypass several sudo-related rule remediations that disable NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers and impose other limitations.
  • Fortunately, current content doesn't check /etc/sysconfig/sshd, so no rules are failing as a result of this. :)
• chage -d 99999 root
  • This resets the password-changed time for root, allowing us to log in again without actually changing the password (and going through pwquality checks).

The chage specifically needs a bit more context - the binary itself has some advanced SELinux checking for /sys/fs/selinux/access and throws Permission denied even when it actually could do the change. This is why we

• set virt_qemu_ga_t as a permissive domain (during OS install), allowing the qemu-guest-agent (ga) to run any commands without SELinux denials
• execute setenforce 0 prior to chage via the guest agent, fooling chage into thinking SELinux is disabled

As a TODO, consider using sed to edit /etc/shadow, instead of chage, to avoid this complex situation.

Note that we need qemu-guest-agent to execute the chage for us - we cannot do it via SSH, as we get locked out the second a remediation finishes. This is fine for oscap, as we can simply do oscap xccdf eval ... ; chage ... in the same shell, but Ansible remediation cannot do this.
So we need a simple side-channel that can run chage after ansible-playbook finishes.

License

Unless specified otherwise, any content within this repository is distributed under the GNU GPLv3 license, see the COPYING.txt file for more.