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Install rear Package

An XCCDF Rule

Description

The rear package can be installed with the following command: 

$ sudo dnf install rear

Rationale

rear contains the Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) utility. ReaR produces a bootable image of a system and restores from backup using this image.

ID
xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_package_rear_installed
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Anaconda Pre-Install Instructions


package --add=rear

Remediation - OS Build Blueprint


[[packages]]
name = "rear"
version = "*"

Remediation - Ansible

- name: Ensure rear is installed
  package:
    name: rear
    state: present
  when: not ( ( ( ansible_architecture == "aarch64" and ansible_distribution == 'OracleLinux'
    and ansible_distribution_version is version('9.0', '>=') ) or ( ansible_architecture

Remediation - Puppet

include install_rear

class install_rear {
  package { 'rear':
    ensure => 'installed',
  }

Remediation - Shell Script

# Remediation is applicable only in certain platforms
if ! ( ( ( grep -q aarch64 /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease && grep -qP "^ID=[\"']?ol[\"']?$" "/etc/os-release" && { real="$(grep -P "^VERSION_ID=[\"']?[\w.]+[\"']?$" /etc/os-release | sed "s/^VERSION_ID=[\"']\?\([^\"']\+\)[\"']\?$/\1/")"; expected="9.0"; printf "%s\n%s" "$expected" "$real" | sort -VC; } ) || ( grep -q aarch64 /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease && grep -qP "^ID=[\"']?rhel[\"']?$" "/etc/os-release" && { real="$(grep -P "^VERSION_ID=[\"']?[\w.]+[\"']?$" /etc/os-release | sed "s/^VERSION_ID=[\"']\?\([^\"']\+\)[\"']\?$/\1/")"; expected="9.0"; printf "%s\n%s" "$expected" "$real" | sort -VC; } ) || ( grep -qP "^ID=[\"']?rhel[\"']?$" "/etc/os-release" && { real="$(grep -P "^VERSION_ID=[\"']?[\w.]+[\"']?$" /etc/os-release | sed "s/^VERSION_ID=[\"']\?\([^\"']\+\)[\"']\?$/\1/")"; expected="8.4"; printf "%s\n%s" "$real" "$expected" | sort -VC; } && grep -q s390x /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease ) ) ); then

if ! rpm -q --quiet "rear" ; then
    dnf install -y "rear"
fi