NAME
security.conf
—
daily security check configuration
file
DESCRIPTION
Thesecurity.conf
file specifies which of the standard
/etc/security services are performed. The
/etc/security script is run, by default, every night
from /etc/daily, on a NetBSD
system, if configured do to so from /etc/daily.conf.
The variables described below can be set to "NO" to disable the test:
- check_passwd
- This checks the /etc/master.passwd file for inconsistencies.
- check_group
- This checks the /etc/group file for inconsistencies.
- check_rootdotfiles
- This checks the root users startup files for sane settings of $PATH and umask. This test is not fail safe and any warning generated from this should be checked for correctness.
- check_ftpusers
- This checks that the correct users are in the /etc/ftpusers file.
- check_aliases
- This checks for security problems in the /etc/mail/aliases file. For backward compatibility, /etc/aliases will be checked as well if exists.
- check_rhosts
- This checks for system and user rhosts files with "+" in them.
- check_homes
- This checks that home directories are owned by the correct user, and have appropriate permissions.
- check_varmail
- This checks that the correct user owns mail in /var/mail, and that the mail box has the right permissions.
- check_nfs
- This checks that the /etc/exports file does not export filesystems to the world.
- check_devices
- This checks for changes to devices and setuid files.
- check_mtree
- This runs mtree(8) to ensure that the system is installed correctly.
The following configuration files are checked:
- /etc/mtree/special
- Default files to check.
- /etc/mtree/special.local
- Local site additions and overrides.
- /etc/mtree/DIR.secure
- Specification for the directory DIR.
- check_disklabels
- Backup text copies of the disklabels of available disk drives into /var/backups/work/disklabel.XXX, and display any differences in those and the previous copies as per check_changelist below. If fdisk(8) is available on the current platform, the output of /sbin/fdisk for each available disk drive is stored in /var/backups/work/fdisk.XXX, and any differences displayed as per the disklabels.
- check_pkgs
- This stores a list of all installed pkgs into /var/backups/work/pkgs and checks it for any changes.
- check_changelist
- This determines a list of files from the contents of
/etc/changelist, and the output of
mtree -D
for /etc/mtree/special and /etc/mtree/special.local. For each file in the list it compares the files with their backups in /var/backups/file.current and /var/backups/file.backup, and displays any differences found. The following mtree(8) tags modify how files are determined from /etc/mtree/special and /etc/mtree/special.local:- exclude
- The entry is ignored; no backups are made and the differences are not displayed. This includes dynamic or binary files such as /var/run/utmp.
- nodiff
- The entry is backed up but the differences are not displayed because the contents of the file are sensitive. This includes files such as /etc/master.passwd.
- check_pkg_vulnerabilities
- Checks the currently installed packages against a database of known vulnerabilities and reports those that are vulnerable. Check the fetch_pkg_vulnerabilities setting in daily.conf(5) to keep the database up to date.
- check_pkg_signatures
- Checks the digital signature of all files installed by packages against the expected values stored in the packages database.
The variables described below can be set to modify the tests:
- check_homes_permit_usergroups
- During the check_homes phase, allow the checked files to be group-writable if the group name is the same as the username.
- check_homes_permit_other_owner
- During the check_homes phase, allow the home directory and files of the listed users to be owned by a different user.
- check_devices_ignore_fstypes
- Lists filesystem types to ignore during the
check_devices phase. Prefixing the type with a
‘!’ inverts the match. For example,
‘
procfs !local
’ will ignore ‘procfs
’ type filesystems and filesystems that are not ‘local
’. - check_devices_ignore_paths
- Lists pathnames to ignore during the check_devices
phase. Prefixing the path with a ‘!’ inverts the match. For
example, ‘
/tftp
’ will ignore paths under /tftp while ‘!/home
’ will ignore paths that are not under /home. - check_mtree_follow_symlinks
- During the check_mtree phase, instruct mtree to follow symbolic links. Please note, this may cause the check_mtree phase to report errors for entries for these symbolic links (i.e. of type=link in the mtree specification) as they will always appear to be plain files for the purposes of the check. /etc/mtree/special.local may be used to override the checks for the affected links.
- check_passwd_nowarn_shells
- If check_passwd is enabled, most warnings will be suppressed for entries whose shells are listed in this space-separated list. This is of particular value when those shells are not in /etc/shells.
- check_passwd_nowarn_users
- If check_passwd is enabled, suppress warnings for these users.
- check_passwd_permit_dups
- If check_passwd is enabled, do not warn about duplicate uids for the listed login names.
- check_passwd_permit_nonalpha
- If check_passwd is enabled, do not warn about login names which use non-alphanumeric characters.
- check_passwd_permit_star
- If check_passwd is enabled, do not warn about password fields set to “*”. Note that the use of password fields such as “*ssh” is encouraged, instead.
- max_grouplen
- If check_group is enabled, this determines the maximum permitted length of group names.
- max_loginlen
- If check_passwd is enabled, this determines the maximum permitted length of login names.
- backup_dir
- Change the backup directory from /var/backup.
- diff_options
- Specify the options passed to diff(1) when it is invoked to show changes made to system files. Defaults to “-u”, for unified-format context-diffs.
- pkgdb_dir
- DEPRECATED.
Please set
PKGDB_DIR
in pkg_install.conf(5) instead.If defined, points to the location of the packages database. Defaults to /var/db/pkg.
- backup_uses_rcs
- Use rcs(1) for maintaining backup copies of files noted in check_devices, check_disklabels, check_pkgs, and check_changelist instead of just keeping a current copy and a backup copy.
FILES
- /etc/defaults/security.conf
- defaults for /etc/security.conf
- /etc/security
- daily security check script
- /etc/security.conf
- daily security check configuration
- /etc/security.local
- local site additions to /etc/security
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The security.conf
file appeared in
NetBSD 1.3. The check_disklabels
functionality was added in NetBSD 1.4. The
backup_uses_rcs and check_pkgs features
were added in NetBSD 1.6.
diff_options appeared in NetBSD
2.0; prior to that, traditional-format (context free) diffs were
generated.