Security Compliance Enforcement for Linux – sce_linux v2.3.1 has been released

[Puppet Product Updates]

We’re excited to announce that Security Compliance Enforcement for Linux – sce_linux v2.3.1 is now available.

SCE for Linux v2.3.1 helps to ensure that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) users can change passwords without encountering issues. Additional minor defects are also addressed.

Resolved issues

• Resolved an issue related to root passwords on RHEL 8 systems. In SCE for Linux versions 2.0.0 and 2.3.0, an attempt to change the root password resulted in failure with the message:
  
  passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
  
  The passwords can now be successfully changed.
• Resolved an issue that caused fact resolutions to fail with the message:
  
  Error: Facter: Error while resolving custom fact fact='sce_mount_info'
  
  The issue occurred because the Puppet agent attempted to detect user home directories in all mounted file systems when resolving the sce_mount_info fact. If any file systems were inaccessible to the agent because of permission issues, errors were reported regardless of whether user home directories existed on the file systems. To resolve the issue, the sce_mount_info fact was updated to ensure that any home directories that are inaccessible to the Puppet agent due to permissions are not reported on.
• Resolved an issue for users of SCE for Linux v2.2.1 on the Ubuntu Linux 20.04 operating system. The Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) configuration checks were not being set correctly. The issue was resolved by ensuring that all configuration checks are now specified with the conf_checks parameter under the ensure_aide_is_installed control.

For further information about this release, visit our release notes here. 

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