This module provides secure configuration of your base OS with hardening.

• Puppet

• system_environment = default define the context in which the system runs. Some options don't work for docker/lxc
• desktop_enabled = false true if this is a desktop system, ie Xorg, KDE/GNOME/Unity/etc
• enable_ipv4_forwarding = false true if this system requires packet forwarding in IPv4 (eg Router), false otherwise
• enable_ipv6_forwarding = false true if this system requires packet forwarding in IPv6 (eg Router), false otherwise
• enable_ipv6 = false
• arp_restricted = true true if you want the behavior of announcing and replying to ARP to be restricted, false otherwise
• extra_user_paths = [] add additional paths to the user's PATH variable (default is empty).
• umask = "027"
• password_max_age = 60 maximum password age
• password_min_age = 7 minimum password age (before allowing any other password change)
• auth_retries = 5 the maximum number of authentication attempts, before the account is locked for some time
• auth_lockout_time = 600 time in seconds that needs to pass, if the account was locked due to too many failed authentication attempts
• login_timeout = 60 authentication timeout in seconds, so login will exit if this time passes
• allow_login_without_home = false true if to allow users without home to login
• passwdqc_enabled = true true if you want to use strong password checking in PAM using passwdqc
• passwdqc_options = "min=disabled,disabled,16,12,8" set to any option line (as a string) that you want to pass to passwdqc
• allow_change_user = false if a user may use su to change his login
• enable_module_loading = true true if you want to allowed to change kernel modules once the system is running (eg modprobe, rmmod)
• load_modules = [] load this modules via initramfs if enable_module_loading is false
• enable_sysrq = false
• enable_core_dump = false
• cpu_vendor = 'intel' only required if enable_module_loading = false: set the CPU vendor for modules to load
• root_ttys = ["console","tty1","tty2","tty3","tty4","tty5","tty6"] registered TTYs for root
• whitelist = [] all files which should keep their SUID/SGID bits if set (will be combined with pre-defined whiteliste of files)
• blacklist = [] all files which should have their SUID/SGID bits removed if set (will be combined with pre-defined blacklist of files)
• remove_from_unknown = false true if you want to remove SUID/SGID bits from any file, that is not explicitly configured in a blacklist. This will make every Chef run search through the mounted filesystems looking for SUID/SGID bits that are not configured in the default and user blacklist. If it finds an SUID/SGID bit, it will be removed, unless this file is in your whitelist.
• dry_run_on_unknown = false like remove_from_unknown above, only that SUID/SGID bits aren't removed. It will still search the filesystems to look for SUID/SGID bits but it will only print them in your log. This option is only ever recommended, when you first configure remove_from_unkown for SUID/SGID bits, so that you can see the files that are being changed and make adjustments to your whitelist and blacklist.

After adding this module, you can use the class:

class { 'os_hardening': }

• Dominik Richter arlimus
• Edmund Haselwanter ehaselwanter
• Christoph Hartmann chris-rock
• Artem Sidorenko artem-sidorenko
• Patrick Meier atomic111
• Kurt Huwig kurthuwig
• Daniel Dreier danieldreier
• Matthew Haughton 3flex
• Reik Keutterling spielkind
• Tristan Helmich fadenb

For the original port of chef-os-hardening to puppet:

• Artem Sidorenko artem-sidorenko
• Frank Kloeker eumel8

Thank you all!!

• Author:: Dominik Richter [email protected]
• Author:: Deutsche Telekom AG

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