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openGauss: Disabling the Logging of the Host Name

🗓️ 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbHType 
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openGauss: Disabling the Logging of the Host Name. By default, the connection log message displays only the IP address of the connected host. If log_hostname is set to on, the host name is also recorded. It may take some time to parse the host name and affect database performance

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# Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH
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if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.150400");
  script_version("2020-11-17T12:21:54+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2020-11-17 12:21:54 +0000 (Tue, 17 Nov 2020)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2020-11-11 15:21:37 +0000 (Wed, 11 Nov 2020)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"0.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"qod", value:"97");

  script_name("openGauss: Disabling the Logging of the Host Name");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
  script_family("Policy");
  script_dependencies("gb_huawei_opengauss_ssh_login_detect.nasl", "compliance_tests.nasl", "opengauss_authentication_information.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("huawei/opengauss/detected", "Compliance/Launch");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://opengauss.org");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"By default, the connection log message displays only the IP address of the
connected host. If log_hostname is set to on, the host name is also recorded. It
may take some time to parse the host name and affect database performance.");

  exit(0);
}

include( "policy_functions.inc" );
include( "ssh_func.inc" );

cmd = "SELECT name,setting FROM pg_settings WHERE name='log_hostname';";
title = "Disabling the Logging of the Host Name";
solution = "Set log_hostname to off in the postgresql.conf file and then restart the database.";
default = "off";
test_type = "SQL_Query";

if( ! get_kb_item( "login/SSH/success" ) || ! sock = ssh_login_or_reuse_connection() ) {
  compliant = "incomplete";
  value = "error";
  comment = "No SSH connection to host";
}else if ( ! value = policy_gsql_cmd( socket:sock, query:cmd ) ) {
  compliant = "incomplete";
  value = "error";
  comment = "SQL command did not return anything";
}else if ( value =~ "failed to connect" ) {
  compliant = "incomplete";
  value = "error";
  comment = "No connection to database";
}else{
  value = ereg_replace( string:chomp(value), pattern:"^\s+", replace:"" );
  setting = eregmatch( string:value, pattern:"log_hostname\s+\|\s+(.+)" );
  if( ! setting[1] ){
    compliant = "incomplete";
    comment = "Can not determine setting.";
  }else if( setting[1] =~ "off" ) {
    compliant = "yes";
  }else{
    compliant = "no";
  }
}


policy_reporting( result:value, default:default, compliant:compliant, fixtext:solution,
  type:test_type, test:cmd, info:comment );

policy_set_kbs( type:test_type, cmd:cmd, default:default, solution:solution, title:title,
  value:value, compliant:compliant );

exit( 0 );

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