Building from Source

1. On RHEL and Fedora make sure the packages openscap-utils and python-lxml and their dependencies are installed. We require version 1.0.8 or later of openscap-utils (available in RHEL) as well as git.

# yum -y install git openscap-utils python-lxml

2. Download the source code

$ git clone https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide.git

3. Build the source code

• To build all the content:

  $ cd scap-security-guide/
$ make

• To build an RPM:

  $ cd scap-security-guide/
$ make rpm

• To build content only for a specific distribution:

  $ cd scap-security-guide/
$ make rhel6

  Or alternatively, content can be made within the sub-group (e.g. RHEL7, RHEL6):

  $ cd scap-security-guide/RHEL/6/ $ make

When the content has completed the build process, the built content exists in the distribution's output directory. For example:

`$ cd scap-security-guide/RHEL/6/output`  

4. Discover the following:

• A pretty prose guide in rhel6-guide.html containing practical, actionable information for administrators
• A concise spreadsheet representation (potentially useful as the basis for an SRTM document) in rhel6-table-nistrefs-server.html
• Files that can be ingested by SCAP-compatible scanning tools, to enable automated checking:
  • ssg-rhel6-xccdf.xml
  • ssg-rhel6-oval.xml
  • ssg-rhel6-ds.xml