Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4
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Set SSH Daemon LogLevel to VERBOSE
The <code>VERBOSE</code> parameter configures the SSH daemon to record login and logout activity. To specify the log level in SSH, add or correct t...Rule Medium Severity -
Set SSH authentication attempt limit
The <code>MaxAuthTries</code> parameter specifies the maximum number of authentication attempts permitted per connection. Once the number of failur...Rule Medium Severity -
Set SSH MaxSessions limit
The <code>MaxSessions</code> parameter specifies the maximum number of open sessions permitted from a given connection. To set MaxSessions edit <co...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure SSH MaxStartups is configured
The MaxStartups parameter specifies the maximum number of concurrent unauthenticated connections to the SSH daemon. Additional connections will be ...Rule Medium Severity -
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 -
Strengthen Firewall Configuration if Possible
If the SSH server is expected to only receive connections from the local network, then strengthen the default firewall rule for the SSH service to ...Group -
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 -
SSSD memcache_timeout option
Value of the memcache_timeout option in the [nss] section of SSSD config /etc/sssd/sssd.conf.Value -
SSSD ssh_known_hosts_timeout option
Value of the ssh_known_hosts_timeout option in the [ssh] section of SSSD configuration file /etc/sssd/sssd.conf.Value
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