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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Adding the ‘—oval-results’ flag to my run gave me more data. My output looks more like yours in format now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thx.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Chris.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> open-scap-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:open-scap-list-bounces@redhat.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Shawn Wells<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> open-scap-list@redhat.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Open-scap] Need help understanding RHEL STIG findings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 1/30/13 11:38 AM, Snyder, Chris wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I’m trying to understand my findings from applying the latest RHEL5 STIG Benchmark against one of my RHEL5 hosts. The results appear to indicate some false positives and I don’t
know how to determine if that is indeed the case or not. Ultimately, I would love to gain more insight into how to determine what tests are being performed by openscap for a given STIG/XCCDF/OVAL item or at least how to find out the results of the tests being
run, i.e. I want to understand WHY openscap is reporting these items as failed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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To make things a bit more consumable you can utilize OpenSCAP's "generate guide," turning the STIG into something that is actually readable:<br>
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$ oscap xccdf generate guide \<br>
/tmp/U_RedHat_5-V1R1_STIG_Benchmark-xccdf.xml \ <br>
> /tmp/U_RedHat_5-V1R1_STIG_Benchmark.html<br>
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Pull up /tmp/U_RedHat_5-V1R1_STIG_Benchmark.html in your favorite browser and look around.<br>
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When you run a scan you can have OpenSCAP generate an HTML report which gives more details around failures:<br>
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$ sudo sh -c "oscap xccdf eval --profile MAC-1_Public \<br>
--results stig-xccdf-results.xml \<br>
--report /tmp/`hostname`-stigscanresults.html \<br>
--oval-results \<br>
--cpe-dict /tmp/U_RedHat_5-V1R1_STIG_Benchmark-cpe-dictionary.xml \<br>
/tmp/U_RedHat_5-V1R1_STIG_Benchmark-xccdf.xml"<br>
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View /tmp/`hostname`-stigscanresults.html in your browser and click on some of the failed items. Many give you details under the "Remediation Script" section.<br>
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Here is my report against a generic RHEL 5.8 install, for example:<br>
<a href="https://blog-shawndwells.rhcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/stigscanresults-beforeaqueduct.html">https://blog-shawndwells.rhcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/stigscanresults-beforeaqueduct.html</a><br>
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Here is the process that I use for STIGing a RHEL5 box, using OpenSCAP+Aqueduct:<br>
<a href="https://blog-shawndwells.rhcloud.com/2012/10/how-to-stig-a-red-hat-enterprise-linux-rhel5-machine/">https://blog-shawndwells.rhcloud.com/2012/10/how-to-stig-a-red-hat-enterprise-linux-rhel5-machine/</a><br>
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