Guide to the Secure Configuration of Fedora
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Install the cron service
The Cron service should be installed.Rule Medium Severity -
Enable cron Service
The <code>crond</code> service is used to execute commands at preconfigured times. It is required by almost all systems to perform necessary mainte...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable cron Service
The <code>crond</code> service is used to execute commands at preconfigured times. It is required by almost all systems to perform necessary mainte...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable At Service (atd)
The <code>at</code> and <code>batch</code> commands can be used to schedule tasks that are meant to be executed only once. This allows delayed exec...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable anacron Service
The <code>cronie-anacron</code> package, which provides <code>anacron</code> functionality, is installed by default. The <code>cronie-anacron</cod...Rule Unknown Severity -
Verify Group Who Owns cron.d
To properly set the group owner of/etc/cron.d
, run the command:$ sudo chgrp root /etc/cron.d
Rule Medium Severity -
LDAP
LDAP is a popular directory service, that is, a standardized way of looking up information from a central database. Fedora includes software that e...Group -
Verify Group Who Owns cron.daily
To properly set the group owner of/etc/cron.daily
, run the command:$ sudo chgrp root /etc/cron.daily
Rule Medium Severity -
Kerberos
The Kerberos protocol is used for authentication across non-secure network. Authentication can happen between various types of principals -- users,...Group -
Uninstall the inet-based telnet server
The inet-based telnet daemon should be uninstalled.Rule High Severity
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