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AGD_ADM.1 Administrator guidance (all EALs)

AGD_ADM.1.1D   The developer shall provide administrator guidance
        addressed to system administrative personnel.
        (This is man 8, and the various administrators' guides
        and HOWTOs. We do have it in most cases. Thanks to the
        LDP project and the numerous people who have written it.)
AGD_ADM.1.1C The administrator guidance shall describe the
        administrative functions and interfaces available to the
        administrator of the TOE.
        (It works in most cases. The GNU coding standards mandate
        that even the --help option should do its essentials.)
AGD_ADM.1.2C The administrator guidance shall describe how to administer
        the TOE in a secure manner.
        (Well, there docs where you can find warnings about security,
        and unfortunately there are the ones which describe insecure
        practices.)
AGD_ADM.1.3C The administrator guidance shall contain warnings about
        functions and privileges that should be controlled in a secure
        processing environment.
        (See above)
AGD_ADM.1.4C The administrator guidance shall describe all assumptions
        regarding user behaviour that are relevant to secure operation
        of the TOE.
        (These assumptions are not made explicit in a lot of cases,
        and because that they do not get into the admin guide.)
AGD_ADM.1.5C The administrator guidance shall describe all security
        parameters under the control of the administrator,
        indicating secure values as appropriate.
        (Where we have admin guide, the parameters are described
        in most cases, but there are indication only in a few
        spots.)
AGD_ADM.1.6C The administrator guidance shall describe each type of
        security-relevant event relative to the administrative
        functions that need to be performed, including changing the
        security characteristics of entities under the control of the
        TSF.
        (It is also a grey spot in a lot of cases.)
AGD_ADM.1.7C The administrator guidance shall be consistent with all
        other documentation supplied for evaluation.
        (Well, being up-to-date is a great challenge with free
        software. From that perspectiveit works with a surprisingly
        high percentage of packages.)
AGD_ADM.1.8C The administrator guidance shall describe all security
        requirements for the IT environment that are relevant to the
        administrator.
        (It is nearly the same case as the assumptions about user
        behaviour.)

AGD_USR.1 User guidance (all EALs)

AGD_USR.1.1D   The developer shall provide user guidance.
        (manpages, user guides, howtos. See AGD_ADM.1.1D)
AGD_USR.1.1C   The user guidance shall describe the functions and
        interfaces available to the non-administrative users of the TOE.
        (It exists in most cases. See AGD_ADM.1.1C)
AGD_USR.1.2C   The user guidance shall describe the use of
        user-accessible security functions provided by the TOE.
        (It is okay more often than not.)
AGD_USR.1.3C   The user guidance shall contain warnings about
        user-accessible functions and privileges that should be
        controlled in a secure processing environment.
        (Well, sometimes they do, sometimes don't.)
AGD_USR.1.4C The user guidance shall clearly present all user
        responsibilities necessary for secure operation of the TOE,
        including those related to assumptions regarding user behaviour
        found in the statement of TOE security environment.
        (I guess that there are only a few cases where these
        statements exists, and only a bit more where the
        responsibilities are described.)
AGD_USR.1.5C The user guidance shall be consistent with all other
        documentation supplied for evaluation.
        (See AGD_ADM.1.7C)
AGD_USR.1.6C The user guidance shall describe all security requirements
        for the IT environment that are relevant to the user.
        (See AGD_ADM.1.8C)


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