Major Hayden fa2800419e Migrate to unique variable names
This patch migrates all of the remaining non-unique variable names
in the security role to a pattern that begins with `security_*`.
This will reduce potential variable collisions with other roles.

This is a breaking change for deployers and users who are moving
from the liberty or stable/mitaka branches to master. Release notes
are included with additional details to help with the transition.

Closes-Bug: 1578326

Change-Id: Ib716e81e6fed971b21dc5579ae1a871736e21189
2016-05-09 16:18:48 -05:00

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Ubuntu's default for security_space_left_action is SUSPEND, which actually only suspends audit logging. That could be a security issue, so SYSLOG is recommended and is set by default by openstack-ansible-security. If syslog messages are being sent to remote servers, these log messages should alert an administrator about the disk being almost full. There are additional options available, like EXEC, SINGLE or HALT.

To configure a different security_space_left_action, set the following Ansible variable:

security_space_left_action: SYSLOG

For details on available settings and what they do, run man auditd.conf. Some options can cause the host to go offline until the issue is fixed. Deployers are urged to carefully read the auditd documentation prior to changing the security_space_left_action setting from the default.