The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured for centralized account management functions via LDAP.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-255278	HP3P-33-001500	SV-255278r870153_rule		Medium

Description

Enterprise environments make account management challenging and complex. A manual process for account management functions adds the risk of a potential oversight or other errors. A comprehensive account management process that includes automation helps to ensure accounts designated as requiring attention are consistently and promptly addressed. Examples include, but are not limited to, using automation to take action on multiple accounts designated as inactive, suspended or terminated, or by disabling accounts located in noncentralized account stores such as multiple servers. This requirement applies to all account types, including individual/user, shared, group, system, guest/anonymous, emergency, developer/manufacturer/vendor, temporary, and service. The automated mechanisms may reside within the operating system itself or may be offered by other infrastructure providing automated account management capabilities. Automated mechanisms may be composed of differing technologies that, when placed together, contain an overall automated mechanism supporting an organization's automated account management requirements. Account management functions include assigning group or role membership; identifying account type; specifying user access authorizations (i.e., privileges); account removal, update, or termination; and administrative alerts. The use of automated mechanisms can include, for example, using email or text messaging to automatically notify account managers when users are terminated or transferred; using the information system to monitor account usage; and using automated telephonic notification to report atypical system account usage. The HPE 3PAR OS supports external account management via communication with LDAP-enabled technologies (OpenLDAP and Active Directory). Configuration is required to establish the external management relationship. Internally defined roles (SUPER, SERVICE, EDIT, BROWSE) are mapped to centrally defined user groups. Administrators attempting to log in are checked first against local accounts (for emergency purposes). If no local account exists, the central account management system is checked. Users that are successfully authenticated, are then checked for membership in the mapped groups to establish their authorization to access the system, if any, and at what role level. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000001-GPOS-00001, SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00021

STIG	Date
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 3.3.x Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-11-30

Details

Check Text ( C-58951r870151_chk )

Determine if the system is configured for external account management. Enter the command "cli% showauthparam" If the result returns an error, or these fields of the output are not configured, this is a finding. ldap-server ldap-server-hn ldap-type If ldap-type is "MSAD", this requirement is not applicable. If the resulting Parameters DO NOT include the following group parameters, this is a finding. groups-dn group-obj group-name-attr Next, verify that the LDAP authentication is operational by entering the command: cli% checkpassword Enter the password for If the username and password used in checkpassword are known to be valid LDAP credentials, and the following text is NOT displayed at the end of the resulting output, this is a finding. user is authenticated and authorized Note: checkpassword will fail even if LDAP is properly configured, if the username and password are not entered correctly.

Fix Text (F-58895r870152_fix)

If Active Directory is in use, this requirement is not applicable. Use this series of commands to configure LDAP: cli% setauthparam -f ldap-type where type is RHDS or OPEN. cli% setauthparam -f ldap-server        cli% setauthparam -f ldap-server-hn     cli% setauthparam -f binding            simple cli% setauthparam -f ldap-StartTLS      require cli% setauthparam -f groups-dn          ou=Groups,dc=thisdomain,dc=com cli% setauthparam -f user-dn-base       ou=People,dc=thisdomain,dc=com cli% setauthparam -f user-attr          uid cli% setauthparam -f group-obj          groupofuniquenames cli% setauthparam -f group-name-attr    cn cli% setauthparam -f member-attr        uniqueMember cli% setauthparam -f browse-map cli% setauthparam -f edit-map           cli% setauthparam -f service-map       cli% setauthparam -f super-map