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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Enable SSL Support

    SSL should be used to encrypt network traffic between the Dovecot server and its clients. Users must authenticate to the Dovecot server in order ...
    Group
  • Configure Dovecot to Use the SSL Certificate file

    This option tells Dovecot where to find the mail server's SSL Certificate. <br><br> Edit <code>/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf</code> and add or co...
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Configure Dovecot to Use the SSL Key file

    This option tells Dovecot where to find the mail server's SSL Key. <br><br> Edit <code>/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf</code> and add or correct th...
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Disable Plaintext Authentication

    To prevent Dovecot from attempting plaintext authentication of clients, edit <code>/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf</code> and add\or correct the f...
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Enable the SSL flag in /etc/dovecot.conf

    To allow clients to make encrypted connections the <code>ssl</code> flag in Dovecot's configuration file needs to be set to <code>yes</code>. <br><...
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Support Only the Necessary Protocols

    Dovecot supports the IMAP and POP3 protocols, as well as SSL-protected versions of those protocols. Configure the Dovecot server to support only ...
    Group
  • Remove the Kerberos Server Package

    The <code>krb5-server</code> package should be removed if not in use. Is this system the Kerberos server? If not, remove the package. The <code>krb...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Disable Kerberos by removing host keytab

    Kerberos is not an approved key distribution method for Common Criteria. To prevent using Kerberos by system daemons, remove the Kerberos keytab fi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • LDAP

    LDAP is a popular directory service, that is, a standardized way of looking up information from a central database. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 incl...
    Group
  • Configure OpenLDAP Clients

    This section provides information on which security settings are important to configure in OpenLDAP clients by manually editing the appropriate con...
    Group

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