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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Ensure Insecure File Locking is Not Allowed

    By default the NFS server requires secure file-lock requests, which require credentials from the client in order to lock a file. Most NFS clients s...
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  • Restrict NFS Clients to Privileged Ports

    By default, the server NFS implementation requires that all client requests be made from ports less than 1024. If your organization has control ove...
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  • Use Kerberos Security on All Exports

    Using Kerberos on all exported mounts prevents a malicious client or user from impersonating a system user. To cryptography authenticate users to t...
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  • Use Root-Squashing on All Exports

    If a filesystem is exported using root squashing, requests from root on the client are considered to be unprivileged (mapped to a user such as nobo...
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  • Configure the Exports File Restrictively

    Linux's NFS implementation uses the file <code>/etc/exports</code> to control what filesystems and directories may be accessed via NFS. (See the <c...
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  • Export Filesystems Read-Only if Possible

    If a filesystem is being exported so that users can view the files in a convenient fashion, but there is no need for users to edit those files, exp...
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  • Use Access Lists to Enforce Authorization Restrictions

    When configuring NFS exports, ensure that each export line in <code>/etc/exports</code> contains a list of hosts which are allowed to access that e...
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  • Network Time Protocol

    The Network Time Protocol is used to manage the system clock over a network. Computer clocks are not very accurate, so time will drift unpredictabl...
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  • Vendor Approved Time pools

    The list of vendor-approved pool servers
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  • Vendor Approved Time Servers

    The list of vendor-approved time servers
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