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The password protection aims to only prevent users from editing the menu entries not from booting the system altogether. Fedora is patching the 10_linux file to use '--unrestricted' so all users can boot the system. As such, we apply a similar patch to the rest of the distros. Change-Id: I1390a330ea1f0b48e71fdcb548614d5582fffbd4 Link: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/grub2.git/tree/0109-Don-t-require-a-password-to-boot-entries-generated-b.patch Link: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Authentication-and-authorisation.html#Authentication-and-authorisation Closes-Bug: 1735709
ansible-hardening
The ansible-hardening role applies security hardening configurations from the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) to systems running the following distributions:
- CentOS 7
- Debian Jessie
- Fedora 26
- openSUSE Leap 42.2 and 42.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (experimental)
- Ubuntu 16.04
For more details, review the ansible-hardening documentation.
Requirements
This role can be used with or without OpenStack-Ansible. It requires Ansible 2.3 or later.
Role Variables
All of the variables for this role are in defaults/main.yml.
Dependencies
This role has no dependencies.
Example Playbook
Using the role is fairly straightforward:
- hosts: servers
roles:
- ansible-hardening
Running with Vagrant
This role can be tested easily on multiple platforms using Vagrant.
The Vagrantfile supports testing on:
- Ubuntu 16.04
- CentOS 7
To test on all platforms:
vagrant destroy --force && vagrant up
To test on Ubuntu 14.04 only:
vagrant destroy ubuntu1404 --force && vagrant up ubuntu1404
To test on Ubuntu 16.04 only:
vagrant destroy ubuntu1604 --force && vagrant up ubuntu1604
To test on CentOS 7 only:
vagrant destroy centos7 --force && vagrant up centos7
License
Apache 2.0
Author Information
For more information, join #openstack-ansible on Freenode.