Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Verify Permissions and Ownership of Old Passwords File
To properly set the owner of <code>/etc/security/opasswd</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chown root /etc/security/opasswd </pre> To properly ...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Group Who Owns /etc/shells File
To properly set the group owner of/etc/shells
, run the command:$ sudo chgrp root /etc/shells
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Verify Who Owns /etc/shells File
To properly set the owner of/etc/shells
, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/shells
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Verify Permissions on group File
To properly set the permissions of/etc/group
, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/group
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Verify Permissions on /etc/shells File
To properly set the permissions of/etc/shells
, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/shells
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Verify that audit tools are owned by group root
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system audit tools must have the proper ownership configured to protected against unauthorized access. Ve...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify that audit tools are owned by root
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system audit tools must have the proper ownership configured to protected against unauthorized access. Ve...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify that audit tools Have Mode 0755 or less
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system audit tools must have the proper permissions configured to protected against unauthorized access. ...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nosuid Option to /var
The <code>nosuid</code> mount option can be used to prevent execution of setuid programs in <code>/var</code>. The SUID and SGID permissions should...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that /etc/cron.allow exists
The file/etc/cron.allow
should exist and should be used instead of/etc/cron.deny
.Rule Medium Severity
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