Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

Viewing the profile files

On the CentOS machine, you'll see the profile files in the /usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ directory. On the Ubuntu machine, you'll see what few profiles there are in the /usr/share/openscap/ directory. The profile files are in the .xml format, and each one contains one or more profiles that you can apply to the system:

[donnie@localhost content]$ pwd/usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content[donnie@localhost content]$ ls -ltotal 50596-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  6734643 Oct 19 19:40 ssg-centos6-ds.xml-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  1596043 Oct 19 19:40 ssg-centos6-xccdf.xml-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 11839886 Oct 19 19:41 ssg-centos7-ds.xml-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  2636971 Oct 19 19:40 ssg-centos7-xccdf.xml-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 642 Oct 19 ...