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Unit 1 Lab - Build Standards and Compliance

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If you are unable to finish the lab in the ProLUG lab environment we ask you reboot the machine from the command line so that other students will have the intended environment.

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The lab has been provided below. The document(s) can be transposed to the desired format so long as the content is preserved. For example, the .txt could be transposed to a .md file.

Module 1: Exploring System Information

Exercise 1.1: Familiarizing ourselves with the System

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mount | grep -i noexec

mount | grep -i nodev

mount | grep -i nosuid

# Approximately how many of your mounted filesystems have each of these values?

Exercise 1.2: Checking Mounted Systems

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sysctl -a | grep -i ipv4

sysctl -a | grep -i ipv6

# How many of each are there?

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sysctl -a | grep -i ipv4 | grep -i forward

# Does IPv4 forward on interfaces?

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lsmod | grep -i tables

# What type of tables exist?

Module 2: PreLAB

  1. Download the STIG Viewer 2.18 from - https://public.cyber.mil/stigs/downloads/ img

  2. Download the STIG for Mariadb and the import it into your STIG viewer. img

Module 3: Lab

This lab is designed to have the engineer practice securing a Linux server or service against a set of configuration standards. These standards are sometimes called benchmarks, checklists, or guidelines.
The engineer will be using STIG Viewer 2.18 to complete this lab.

MariaDB Service configuration:

  1. Connect to a hammer server.
  2. Install MariaDB.
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dnf install mariadb-server

# Ensure that it is running

systemctl start mariadb

systemctl status mariadb

ss -ntulp | grep 3306

  • Check and remediate v-253666 STIG. STIG 253666 image STIG 253666 continued image

    • What is the problem?
    • What is the fix?
    • What type of control is being implemented?
    • Is it set properly on your system?

    Connect to MariaDB locally. 

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    mysql

    Run the SQL command in the STIG's Fix Text section:

    SELECT user, max_user_connections FROM mysql.user;

    SQL Image 1

    Can you remediate this finding?

    SQL Image 2

  • Check and remediate v-253677 STIG

    • What is the problem?
    • What is the fix?
    • What type of control is being implemented?
    • Is it set properly on your system?

  • Check and remediate v-253678 STIG

    • What is the problem?
    • What is the fix?
    • What type of control is being implemented?
    • Is it set properly on your system?

  • Check and remediate v-253734 STIG

    • What is the problem?
    • What is the fix?
    • What type of control is being implemented?
    • Is it set properly on your system?

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Be sure to reboot the lab machine from the command line when you are done.