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General Purpose Operating System Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The operating system must allow operating system admins to change security attributes on users, the operating system, or the operating systems components.

    Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have discretion over who should be authorized to access the object and in which...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324

    Group
  • SRG-OS-000326

    Group
  • The operating system must prevent all software from executing at higher privilege levels than users executing the software.

    In certain situations, software applications/programs need to execute with elevated privileges to perform required functions. However, if the privileges required for execution are at a higher level...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000327

    Group

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