Hello Mike,

  thank you for contacting us.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Kuhnkey" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 1:29:47 AM
> Subject: [Open-scap] Suspect Error in ssg_rhel6-ds.xml: Incorrect reference 
> to NIST SP 800-53r4 control category
> 
> In the DataStream referred to above:
> 
> line# 25738 <reference href="http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistubs/SpecialPub
> lications/NIST.SP.800-53r4.pdf">194</reference>;
> line# 25739 <reference href="http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/cci/Pages/index
> .aspx">194</reference>;
> 
> Appears to be incorrect format for NIST SP-800-53r4 control
> category....reference format should be of type AA-N.  Not NNN?

Can you clarify what those "AA-N" and "NNN" abbreviations refer to?
Or select an example from e.g.:
  [1] http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/apa/APA10.html

you would like the SSG upstream to follow when creating the references?

Feel free to file an upstream RFE with an example wrt to this:
  [2] https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/issues/new

> 
> <Rule
> id="xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_accounts_password_pam_dcredit"
> selected="false" severity="low">
> 
> I am unaware of how datastream content is formed for release within
> scap-security-guide...could you identify the directories or point me to
> applicable developer documentation so I can get a little smarter on
> this?

The format of the references is the very same for each rule in the benchmark.
The DataStream content is created during the build process within Makefile
for a particular product (e.g. for RHEL/6):
  
https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/blob/master/RHEL/6/Makefile#L84

But this is just expansion of XCCDF standard formatted benchmark into
output datastream form.
  
The references are expanded within "shorthand2xccdf.xslt" XSLT transformation.
For RHEL/6 product it's here:
  
https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/blob/master/RHEL/6/transforms/shorthand2xccdf.xslt#L165
  
Should we start producing references in different format, it would
be easier for us an example to be provided (so we could update the
build process upstream). Also a RFE filed upstream [2] would be appreciated
too.

> 
> I can build "rhel6-dist" but the substitution process that produces
> this statement within the datastream still eludes me.

Hope the above being helpful.

Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Technologies Team

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