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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

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  • Specify Additional Remote NTP Servers

    Depending on specific functional requirements of a concrete production environment, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 system can be configured to uti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that chronyd is running under chrony user account

    chrony is a daemon which implements the Network Time Protocol (NTP). It is designed to synchronize system clocks across a variety of systems and us...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure Chrony is only configured with the server directive

    Check that Chrony only has time sources configured with the server directive.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Group Who Owns /etc/chrony.keys File

    To properly set the group owner of /etc/chrony.keys, run the command:
    $ sudo chgrp chrony /etc/chrony.keys
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify User Who Owns /etc/chrony.keys File

    To properly set the owner of /etc/chrony.keys, run the command:
    $ sudo chown root /etc/chrony.keys 
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Permissions On /etc/chrony.keys File

    To properly set the permissions of /etc/chrony.keys, run the command:
    $ sudo chmod 0640 /etc/chrony.keys
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Obsolete Services

    This section discusses a number of network-visible services which have historically caused problems for system security, and for which disabling or...
    Group
  • Verify Group Ownership on SSH Server Private *_key Key Files

    SSH server private keys, files that match the /etc/ssh/*_key glob, must be group-owned by root group.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Disable rsh Service

    The <code>rsh</code> service, which is available with the <code>rsh-server</code> package and runs as a service through xinetd or separately as a s...
    Rule High Severity
  • Verify Group Ownership on SSH Server Public *.pub Key Files

    SSH server public keys, files that match the /etc/ssh/*.pub glob, must be group-owned by root group.
    Rule Medium Severity

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