Is there a reason sysctl values are cast to integer?

[KoenDG]

See here:

ansible-role-hardening/tasks/sysctl.yml

Line 46 in 5c4e9ad

value: "{{ item.value | int }}"

Certain values can have more than 1 setting. Example:

net.ipv4.tcp_wmem: 4096 87380 8388608

Granted, that isn't a security/hardening related setting. So I'm just wondering if it would be ok to remove the cast, or leave it in as long as it doesn't come up for a hardening-related idea.

[konstruktoid]

No particular reason except that all defaults (https://github.com/konstruktoid/ansible-role-hardening/blob/master/defaults/main/sysctl.yml) are basic integers.

If other values are added that isn't integers, the cast should be removed.

[KoenDG]

Alright, since there appears to be no need for that right now, I'll close this.