February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
15h 45m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition
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Viewing the profile files
On either of the CentOS machines, you'll see the profile files in the /usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ directory.
Curiously, on the Ubuntu machine, you'll see some outdated Fedora and RHEL profiles in the /usr/share/openscap/ directory. (Why they're there, I have no clue.) In the /usr/share/scap-security-guide directory, you'll see application profiles for Firefox, the Java Runtime Environment, and Webmin. You'll also see profiles for the Ubuntu operating system, but they're for Ubuntu 16.04. (Really, is it that hard to include up-to-date profiles for Ubuntu 18.04?) The profile files are in .xml format, and each one contains one or more profiles that you can apply to the system. For example, here are some from the ...