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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Enable Use of Privilege Separation

    When enabled, SSH will create an unprivileged child process that has the privilege of the authenticated user. To enable privilege separation in SSH...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Use Only Strong Key Exchange algorithms

    Limit the Key Exchange to strong algorithms. The following line in <code>/etc/ssh/sshd_config</code> demonstrates use of those: <pre>KexAlgorithms ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Use Only Strong MACs

    Limit the MACs to strong hash algorithms. The following line in <code>/etc/ssh/sshd_config</code> demonstrates use of those MACs: <pre>MACs <xccdf-...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Prevent remote hosts from connecting to the proxy display

    The SSH daemon should prevent remote hosts from connecting to the proxy display. <br> The default SSH configuration for <code>X11UseLocalhost</code...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • System Security Services Daemon

    The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) is a system daemon that provides access to different identity and authentication providers such as Red H...
    Group
  • SSSD certificate_verification option

    Value of the certificate_verification option in the SSSD config.
    Value
  • Install the SSSD Package

    The <code>sssd</code> package should be installed. The <code>sssd</code> package can be installed with the following command: <pre> $ sudo dnf inst...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable the SSSD Service

    The SSSD service should be enabled. The <code>sssd</code> service can be enabled with the following command: <pre>$ sudo systemctl enable sssd.ser...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Certificate status checking in SSSD

    Multifactor solutions that require devices separate from information systems gaining access include, for example, hardware tokens providing time-ba...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable Certmap in SSSD

    SSSD should be configured to verify the certificate of the user or group. To set this up ensure that section like <code>certmap/testing.test/rule_...
    Rule Medium Severity

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