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crypto_policies

Manage system-wide crypto policies on the Red Hat OS family

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Version information

  • 0.3.3 (latest)
  • 0.3.2 (deleted)
  • 0.3.1
  • 0.2.0
  • 0.1.1
  • 0.1.0
released Jun 11th 2023
This version is compatible with:
  • Puppet Enterprise 2023.5.x, 2023.4.x, 2023.3.x, 2023.2.x, 2023.1.x, 2023.0.x, 2021.7.x, 2021.6.x, 2021.5.x, 2021.4.x, 2021.3.x, 2021.2.x, 2021.1.x, 2021.0.x, 2019.8.x, 2019.7.x, 2019.5.x, 2019.4.x, 2019.3.x, 2019.2.x, 2019.1.x, 2019.0.x, 2018.1.x, 2017.3.x, 2017.2.x, 2016.4.x
  • Puppet >= 4.10.0 < 9.0.0
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Start using this module

  • r10k or Code Manager
  • Bolt
  • Manual installation
  • Direct download

Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'ssm-crypto_policies', '0.3.3'
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Add this module to your Bolt project:

bolt module add ssm-crypto_policies
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install ssm-crypto_policies --version 0.3.3

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Documentation

ssm/crypto_policies — version 0.3.3 Jun 11th 2023

crypto_policies

Table of Contents

  1. Description
  2. Setup - The basics of getting started with crypto_policies
  3. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
  4. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
  5. Development - Guide for contributing to the module

Description

This module sets the system-wide crypto policy on the Red Hat OS family.

The module also provides a fact showing the current crypto policy and if the crypto-policies software is available and installed on the OS.

This affects the security level of BIND, GnuTLS, Kerberos, NSS, OpenJDK, OpenSSH, OpenSSL and more.

The crypto-policies software available on the RedHat os family from version 8 and on configures the policy for which cryptographic algorithms are to be available and used across various applications and libraries. See the crypto-policies(7) man page or the Red Hat documentation on security hardening for more information.

Setup

Beginning with crypto_policies

This is a simple module. Include it to use the 'DEFAULT' crypto policy, or use the policy parameter to set a policy and optional policy modules.

Usage

Basic usage. This will use the DEFAULT policy, which is default for this module..

include crypto_policies

Set a policy of DEFAULT adding the NO-SHA1 module to disable the sha1 hashing algorithm.

class { 'crypto_policies':
  policy => 'DEFAULT:NO-SHA1',
}

Limitations

For now, this only works on the RedHat OS family version 8.

On any other OS, or if the crypto-policies software is uninstalled, this module will silently do nothing.

Development

Pull requests and bug reports are welcome.