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ferricoxide @[email protected] · 2026-01-14 · 22:15 UTC

Fucking #Amazon (#AWS)…

So, I'm in the midst of writing supplemental automation to take care of site-specific remediation of STIG-hardening guidance for RPM-based #linux distros. Across all of my employers' customers, we support Red Hat and Oracle Enterprise Linux 8 & 9, @[email protected] and @[email protected] 9, CentOS Stream 9 and Amazon Linux 2023.

One of the remediations I was working on, today, was one that exists for all of the above named distros. Generally, when I have the STIG-Viewer open (I still use the 2.x one because the 3.x one is hot garbage), I use the search capability to limit the displayed findings to just the ones I'm currently working on. I also tend to prefer to use the longest possible string to match for the rule-text. Doing so avoids displaying findings I'm not interested in (just because they each reference, say, "auditd").

At any rate, I type in the string:

must encrypt the transfer of audit records

Four hits. I then copy the rule rule-title from the #RHEL finding. The view reduces to three hits. Since I'd reviewed the previous four hits and seen that there was one each for RHEL, #OEL, #AlmaLinux and #AmazonLinux, I was confused why typing the longer string had reduced my number of hits. Specifically, it had removed the #AmazonLinux2023 finding.

So, I returned to the shorter filter string. I compared the RHEL and #AL2023 rule text strings.

RHEL/OEL/Alma:

must encrypt the transfer of audit records offloaded onto a different system or media from the system being audited via rsyslog

AL2023:

must encrypt the transfer of audit records off-loaded onto a different system or media from the system being audited via rsyslog.

And all I could think was, "are you fucking kidding me???"

#RedHat
#Oracle
#RockyLinux

#amazon #aws #linux #rhel #oel #almalinux

🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻♓🧿 @[email protected] · 2025-07-26 · 18:33 UTC

I've been doing #webDev for #AWS for a long time using Ubuntu in #WSL and it just occurred to me I could be using #Amazon #Linux 2023 instead. Any #windows #developers out there doing this?