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autotailor(8) System Administration Utilities autotailor(8)

NAME

autotailor - CLI tool for tailoring of SCAP data streams.

DESCRIPTION

The autotailor tool produces tailoring files that SCAP-compliant scanners can use to complement SCAP data streams. A tailoring file adds a new profile, which is supposed to extend a profile that is already present in the data stream.

Tailoring can add, remove or refine rules, and it also can redefine contents of XCCDF variables.

The tool requires data stream location and ID of the base profile as inputs. Note however, that the referenced data stream is not opened, and the validity of tailoring is not checked against it. The tool doesn't prevent you from extending non-existent profiles, selecting non-existent rules, and so on.

SYNOPSIS

autotailor [OPTION...] DATASTREAM_FILE [BASE_PROFILE_ID]

OPTIONS

Title of the new profile.
The reverse-DNS style string that is part of entities IDs in the corresponding data stream. If left out, the default value 'org.ssgproject.content' is used.
Specify modification of the XCCDF value in form <varname>=<value>. Name of the variable can be either its full name, or the suffix, in which case the 'xccdf_<id-namespace>_value' prefix will be prepended internally. Specify the argument multiple times if needed.
Specify refinement of the XCCDF value in form <varname>=<selector>. Name of the variable can be either its full name, or the suffix, in which case the 'xccdf_<id-namespace>_value' prefix will be prepended internally. Specify the argument multiple times if needed.
Specify refinement of the XCCDF rule role in form <rule_id>=<role>. Name of the rule can be either its full name, or the suffix, in which case the 'xccdf_<id-namespace>_rule_' prefix will be prepended internally. The value of <role> can be one of full, unscored, unchecked. Specify the argument multiple times if needed.
Specify refinement of the XCCDF rule severity in form <rule_id>=<severity>. Name of the rule can be either its full name, or the suffix, in which case the 'xccdf_<id-namespace>_rule_' prefix will be prepended internally. The value of <severity> can be one of unknown, info, low, medium, high. Specify the argument multiple times if needed.
Specify the rule to select. The rule ID can be either full, or just the suffix, in which case the 'xccdf_<id-namespace>_rule' prefix will be prepended internally. Specify the argument multiple times if needed.
Specify the rule to unselect. The argument works the same way as the --select argument.
Specify the ID of the tailored profile. The ID of the new profile can be either its full ID, or the suffix, in which case the 'xccdf_<id-namespace>_profile_' prefix will be prepended internally. If left out, the new ID will be obtained by appending '_customized' to the tailored profile ID.
Import tailoring from a JSON file (https://github.com/ComplianceAsCode/schemas/tree/main/tailoring). This option makes BASE_PROFILE_ID positional argument optional. However, data passed in the command line options takes precedence over JSON contents, including the BASE_PROFILE_ID argument.

USAGE

Modify a variable value

$ autotailor --var-value xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_value_var_screensaver_lock_delay=120 -o tailoring.xml ssg-rhel8-ds.xml xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_profile_pci_dss

The utility allows you to specify the ID namespace using the --namespace-id option, so you don't have to repeat the xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_... prefix everywhere. The default namespace ID is actually org.ssgproject.content, so the following invocations are equivalent to the first one:

$ autotailor --var-value var_screensaver_lock_delay=120 --namespace-id org.ssgproject.content -o tailoring.xml ssg-rhel8-ds.xml pci_dss

$ autotailor --var-value var_screensaver_lock_delay=120 -o tailoring.xml ssg-rhel8-ds.xml pci_dss

The tailoring tailoring_file defines a new profile, xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_profile_pci_dss_customized, which alters the screensaver lock delay.

Perform more modifications

$ autotailor --var-value var_screensaver_lock_delay=120 --select gconf_gnome_screensaver_idle_delay --var-value inactivity_timeout_value=600 ssg-rhel8-ds.xml pci_dss

Import JSON tailoring

$ autotailor ssg-rhel8-ds.xml --json-tailoring tailoring.json

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs using https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap/issues

AUTHORS

Matěj Týč <matyc@redhat.com>
Jan Černý <jcerny@redhat.com>
Evgenii Kolesnikov <ekolesni@redhat.com>
January 2024 Red Hat, Inc.