Configure RHEL/Centos 7 machine to be CIS compliant. Level 1 and 2 findings will be corrected by default.
This role will make changes to the system that could break things. This is not an auditing tool but rather a remediation tool to be used after an audit has been conducted.
If you want to install this via the ansible-galaxy command you'll need to run it like this:
ansible-galaxy install -p roles -r requirements.yml
With this in the file requirements.yml:
- src: https://github.com/MindPointGroup/RHEL7-CIS.git
Based on CIS RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 Benchmark v2.1.1 - 01-31-2017 .
This repo originated from work done by Sam Doran
You should carefully read through the tasks to make sure these changes will not break your systems before running this playbook. If you want to do a dry run without changing anything, set the below sections (rhel7cis_section1-6) to false.
There are many role variables defined in defaults/main.yml. This list shows the most important.
rhel7cis_notauto: Run CIS checks that we typically do NOT want to automate due to the high probability of breaking the system (Default: false)
rhel7cis_section1: CIS - General Settings (Section 1) (Default: true)
rhel7cis_section2: CIS - Services settings (Section 2) (Default: true)
rhel7cis_section3: CIS - Network settings (Section 3) (Default: true)
rhel7cis_section4: CIS - Logging and Auditing settings (Section 4) (Default: true)
rhel7cis_section5: CIS - Access, Authentication and Authorization settings (Section 5) (Default: true)
rhel7cis_section6: CIS - System Maintenance settings (Section 6) (Default: true)
rhel7cis_selinux_disable: false
rhel7cis_avahi_server: false
rhel7cis_cups_server: false
rhel7cis_dhcp_server: false
rhel7cis_ldap_server: false
rhel7cis_telnet_server: false
rhel7cis_nfs_server: false
rhel7cis_rpc_server: false
rhel7cis_ntalk_server: false
rhel7cis_rsyncd_server: false
rhel7cis_tftp_server: false
rhel7cis_rsh_server: false
rhel7cis_nis_server: false
rhel7cis_snmp_server: false
rhel7cis_squid_server: false
rhel7cis_smb_server: false
rhel7cis_dovecot_server: false
rhel7cis_httpd_server: false
rhel7cis_vsftpd_server: false
rhel7cis_named_server: false
rhel7cis_bind: false
rhel7cis_vsftpd: false
rhel7cis_httpd: false
rhel7cis_dovecot: false
rhel7cis_samba: false
rhel7cis_squid: false
rhel7cis_net_snmp: false
rhel7cis_is_mail_server: false
rhel7cis_is_router: false
rhel7cis_ipv6_required: true
rhel7cis_config_aide: true
rhel7cis_aide_cron:
cron_user: root
cron_file: /etc/crontab
aide_job: '/usr/sbin/aide --check'
aide_minute: 0
aide_hour: 5
aide_day: '*'
aide_month: '*'
aide_weekday: '*'
rhel7cis_selinux_pol: targeted
rhel7cis_xwindows_required: no
rhel7cis_openldap_clients_required: false
rhel7cis_telnet_required: false
rhel7cis_talk_required: false
rhel7cis_rsh_required: false
rhel7cis_ypbind_required: false
rhel7cis_time_synchronization: chrony
rhel7cis_time_Synchronization: ntp
rhel7cis_time_synchronization_servers:
- 0.pool.ntp.org
- 1.pool.ntp.org
- 2.pool.ntp.org
- 3.pool.ntp.org
rhel7cis_host_allow:
- "10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0"
- "172.16.0.0/255.240.0.0"
- "192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0"
rhel7cis_firewall: firewalld
rhel7cis_firewall: iptables
Ansible > 2.2
This sample playbook should be run in a folder that is above the main RHEL7-CIS / RHEL7-CIS-devel folder.
- name: Harden Server
hosts: servers
become: yes
roles:
- RHEL7-CIS
Many tags are available for precise control of what is and is not changed.
Some examples of using tags:
# Audit and patch the site
ansible-playbook site.yml --tags="patch"
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