ansible-hardening/doc/source/rhel7/domains/misc.rst
Major Hayden 875f635ab4 [Docs] Overhaul STIG by tag docs
This patch gets rid of the old "special notes" section that was a
dead-end in the documentation and replaces it with a brief header
followed by a dynamically-generated list of tag-specific
documentation. All of this sits underneath the "Hardening Domains"
section.

It also splits the "Deviations" documentation into its own section
because it's quite important for a deployer to review.

The patch also includes a link to video/slides from the Boston
Summit, which provided the latest updates for the project and some
background on how everything fits together.

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misc - Miscellaneous security controls
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Some of the security controls provided by the STIG are difficult to group
together. The following documentation includes STIG requirements which do not
easily fit into one of the other hardening domains.
Overview
--------
Reliable time synchronization is a requirement in the STIG and the ``chrony``
package will be installed to handle NTP for systems secured with the openstack-
ansible-security role. The default settings will work for most environments,
but some deployers may prefer to use NTP servers which are geographically
closer to their servers.
The role configures the chrony daemon to listen only on ``localhost``. To allow
chrony to listen on all addresses (the upstream default for chrony),
set the ``security_ntp_bind_local_interfaces_only`` variable to ``False``.
The default configuration allows `RFC1918`_ addresses to reach the NTP server
running on each host. That could be changed by using the
``security_allowed_ntp_subnets`` parameter.
.. _RFC1918: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network#Private_IPv4_address_spaces
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