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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 users' .netrc Files are not group or world accessible

    While the system administrator can establish secure permissions for users' .netrc files, the users can easily override these. This rule ensures ev...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events When Executables Are Run As Another User

    Verify the system generates an audit record when actions are run as another user. sudo provides users with temporary elevated privileges to perform...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Attempts to perform maintenance activities

    The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system must generate audit records for privileged activities, nonlocal maintenance, diagnostic sessions an...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Any Attempts to Run chacl

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect any execution attempt of the <code>chacl</code> command for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on Kernel Module Loading and Unloading

    To capture kernel module loading and unloading events, use following lines, setting ARCH to either b32 for 32-bit system, or having two lines for b...
    Rule Medium Severity

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