README.md

postgres-hardening (Postgres cookbook)

Description

Provides security configurations for postgres.

Note: This is currently work in progress and not tested on all supported platforms

Requirements

• Chef >= 12.5.1

Platform

• Debian 7, 8
• Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, 16.04
• RHEL 6, 7
• CentOS 6, 7
• Oracle Linux 6, 7

Usage

This cookbook is optimized to work with os-hardening and ssh-hardening. It will play well without, but you need to ensure all preconditions like apt-get update or yum update are met.

add the following to your runlist and customize security option attributes

  "recipe[postgresql::server]",
  "recipe[postgres-hardening]"

You should also use the official postgres packages, because those offer the latest fixes. Enable the suitable option for the postgres cookbook.

"postgresql": {

   # debian, ubuntu
   "enable_pgdg_apt": true

   # rhel
   "enable_pgdg_yum": true

}

The hardening cookbook is only optimized for Postgresql 9.4. This can be activated for [postgres cookbook](https://github.com/sous-chefs/postgresql.

"postgresql": {
   version: "9.4"
}

Enable SSL

Please read http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/ssl-tcp.html first.

This cookbook will delete the links from /var/lib/postgresql/#{node['postgresql']['version']}/main/server.crt to /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem and /var/lib/postgresql/#{node['postgresql']['version']}/main/server.key to /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key on Debian systems. This certificates are self-signed (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil_%28cryptography%29) and therefore not trusted. You have to provide your own trusted certificates for SSL.

Security Options

• node['postgresql']['config']['logging_collector'] = true This parameter enables the logging collector, which is a background process that captures log messages sent to stderr and redirects them into log files. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-logging.html for details Defaults to: true

• node['postgresql']['config']['log_directory'] = 'pg_log' When logging_collector is enabled, this parameter determines the directory in which log files will be created. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-logging.html for details Defaults to: pg_log

• node['postgresql']['config']['log_connections'] = true Causes each attempted connection to the server to be logged, as well as successful completion of client authentication. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-logging.html for details Defaults to: true

• node['postgresql']['config']['log_disconnections'] = true This outputs a line in the server log similar to log_connections but at session termination, and includes the duration of the session. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-logging.html for details Defaults to: true

• node['postgresql']['config']['log_duration'] = true Causes the duration of every completed statement to be logged See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-logging.html for details Defaults to: true

• node['postgresql']['config']['log_hostname'] = true By default, connection log messages only show the IP address of the connecting host. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-logging.html for details Defaults to: true

• node['postgresql']['config']['log_line_prefix'] = '%t %u %d %h' This is a printf-style string that is output at the beginning of each log line. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-logging.html for details Defaults to: %t %u %d %h

• node['postgresql']['config']['password_encryption'] = true When a password is specified in CREATE USER or ALTER ROLE without writing either ENCRYPTED or UNENCRYPTED, this parameter determines whether the password is to be encrypted. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-connection.html for details Defaults to: true

• node['postgresql']['config']['ssl'] = false Enables SSL connections. Please read http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/ssl-tcp.html SSL certificates are out of scope of this module. This is why this setting defaults to off. You have to provide ssl certificates before the startup of postgres, otherwise it will fail to start.
  See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-connection.html for details Defaults to: false

Tests

# Install dependencies
gem install bundler
bundle install

# Do lint checks
bundle exec rake lint

# fast test on one machine
bundle exec kitchen test default-apt-ubuntu-1604

# test on all machines
bundle exec kitchen test

# for development
bundle exec kitchen create default-apt-ubuntu-1604
bundle exec kitchen converge default-apt-ubuntu-1604

Contributors + Kudos

• Edmund Haselwanter ehaselwanter
• Dominik Richter arlimus
• Christoph Hartmann chris-rock
• Patrick Muench atomic111

License and Author

• Author:: Deutsche Telekom AG

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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