On 08/21/2012 10:29 AM, Jeffrey Blank wrote:
> On 08/20/2012 04:42 PM, Gary Gapinski wrote:
>> I did a quick check of the generated content against the SCAP Content
>> Validation Tool <http://scap.nist.gov/revision/1.1/index.html#validation>.
> Fantastic -- thanks for the testing!
>
>
>> I first created CPE definition and OVAL documents (available when
>> needed; I can check into the project after I grok proper commit
>> conduct). These are unfortunately required for conformance with SP 800-126.
> I thought my patch from last week took care of generating those?
> (in the script transforms/cpe_generate.py, and new directory
> input/checks/platform)
>
> The output files should be in:
> http://people.redhat.com/swells/scap-security-guide/RHEL6/output/
>
> (There's a weird bug where one of the OVAL definitions (qpid) got
> flagged as inventory but it should be fixed now (if you pull a clean
> clone).)

I see them at that URI but they do not appear to be generated in
RHEL6/output by "make tables".

>
>
>> I then noticed that the OVAL ids are not in OVAL format, so further
>> validation attempts will have to await assignment of OVAL-conformant
>> identifiers.
> Could you elaborate?  I certainly played some games with identifiers
> during development, but I thought we got final output right.
>
> The file rhel6-oval.xml isn't in proper OVAL format, but
> rhel6-oval-scap-security-guide.xml has the IDs properly assigned.  This
> was done on purpose, so that any org could easily assign an ID, and
> developers would never have to see pointless numeric designators and
> duplicative org designators.  (But maybe we've got something else
> wrong.)  And admittedly, this isn't apparent at a glance.
>
> But it's what the Makerule for "content:" does here:
> http://people.redhat.com/swells/scap-security-guide/RHEL6/Makefile

"make content" creates them - I had neglected to use that.

I had also unfortunately used rhel6-oval.xml - I'll re-run with the
other documents.


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