Guide to the Secure Configuration of Fedora
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Make Each System a Client or a Server, not Both
If NFS must be used, it should be deployed in the simplest configuration possible to avoid maintainability problems which may lead to unnecessary s...Group -
Configure NFS Services to Use Fixed Ports (NFSv3 and NFSv2)
Firewalling should be done at each host and at the border firewalls to protect the NFS daemons from remote access, since NFS servers should never b...Group -
Configure lockd to use static TCP port
Configure the <code>lockd</code> daemon to use a static TCP port as opposed to letting the RPC Bind service dynamically assign a port. Edit the fil...Rule Unknown Severity -
Configure lockd to use static UDP port
Configure the <code>lockd</code> daemon to use a static UDP port as opposed to letting the RPC Bind service dynamically assign a port. Edit the fil...Rule Unknown Severity -
Configure mountd to use static port
Configure the <code>mountd</code> daemon to use a static port as opposed to letting the RPC Bind service dynamically assign a port. Edit the file <...Rule Unknown Severity -
Configure statd to use static port
Configure the <code>statd</code> daemon to use a static port as opposed to letting the RPC Bind service dynamically assign a port. Edit the file <c...Rule Unknown Severity -
Configure NFS Clients
The steps in this section are appropriate for systems which operate as NFS clients.Group -
Disable NFS Server Daemons
There is no need to run the NFS server daemons <code>nfs</code> and <code>rpcsvcgssd</code> except on a small number of properly secured systems de...Group -
Disable Network File System (nfs)
The Network File System (NFS) service allows remote hosts to mount and interact with shared filesystems on the local system. If the local system is...Rule Unknown Severity -
Disable Secure RPC Server Service (rpcsvcgssd)
The rpcsvcgssd service manages RPCSEC GSS contexts required to secure protocols that use RPC (most often Kerberos and NFS). The rpcsvcgssd service ...Rule Unknown Severity
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