Ansible remediations appends unexpected text to /etc/issue

[jan-cerny]

Description of problem:

In the pre-release stabilization of the 0.1.81 release, the /per-rule test has revealed an issue in Ansible remediations in rule banner_etc_issue.

The issue is that after remediation, there is an unexpected string reported. appended after the login banner text in /etc/issue. This causes

SCAP Security Guide Version:

Current stabilization branch as of 2025-05-19 as of HEAD 3af66f7

Operating System Version:

happens on all targeted RHEL versions

10.0 RHEL-10.0-updates-20260518.1
10.2 RHEL-10.2-20260507.1
8.10 RHEL-8.10.0-updates-20260517.2
9.2 RHEL-9.2.0-updates-20260517.1
9.4 RHEL-9.4.0-updates-20260517.1
9.6 RHEL-9.6.0-updates-20260517.1
9.8 RHEL-9.8.0-20260409.3

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Run /per-rule/ansible tests for rule banner_etc_issue

Actual Results:

Failing tests

• banner_etc_issue/banner_etc_issue_disa_dod_short.fail
• banner_etc_issue/custom_banner.fail
• banner_etc_issue_net/banner_etc_issue_net_mingetty.fail
• banner_etc_issue_net/banner_etc_issue_net_osid.fail

Rule fails because /etc/issue contains:

I've read & consent to terms in IS user agreem't. reported. 

or

This system is made available by ABCD Inc. exclusively for authorized business use. Use may be monitored for technical or regulatory purposes. Do not use this system if you do not consent to such monitoring. Ce système est mis à disposition par la Société ABCD exclusivement pour un usage professionnel autorisé. L'utilisation peut faire l'objet d'une surveillance pour des raisons techniques ou réglementaires. N'utilisez pas ce système si vous n'acceptez pas cette surveillance. reported. 

Expected Results:

Test scenarios shouldn't fail.

Additional Information/Debugging Steps:

Issue happens only for the ansible variant, oscap (bash remediations) works fine.

[jan-cerny]

This is a problem in how contest generates playbooks. It will be fixed in contest by RHSecurityCompliance/contest#624

[comps]

This has been fixed for now, in RHSecurityCompliance/contest#624