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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • 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
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Who Owns /etc/shells File

    To properly set the owner of /etc/shells, run the command:
    $ sudo chown root /etc/shells 
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Permissions on group File

    To properly set the permissions of /etc/group, run the command:
    $ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/group
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Permissions on /etc/shells File

    To properly set the permissions of /etc/shells, run the command:
    $ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/shells
    Rule Medium Severity
  • 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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