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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Virtualization 4

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  • Set SSH MaxSessions limit

    The <code>MaxSessions</code> parameter specifies the maximum number of open sessions permitted from a given connection. To set MaxSessions edit <co...
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  • Ensure SSH MaxStartups is configured

    The MaxStartups parameter specifies the maximum number of concurrent unauthenticated connections to the SSH daemon. Additional connections will be ...
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  • Enable Use of Privilege Separation

    When enabled, SSH will create an unprivileged child process that has the privilege of the authenticated user. To enable privilege separation in SSH...
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  • Strengthen Firewall Configuration if Possible

    If the SSH server is expected to only receive connections from the local network, then strengthen the default firewall rule for the SSH service to ...
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  • System Security Services Daemon

    The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) is a system daemon that provides access to different identity and authentication providers such as Red H...
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  • SSSD certificate_verification option

    Value of the certificate_verification option in the SSSD config.
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  • SSSD memcache_timeout option

    Value of the memcache_timeout option in the [nss] section of SSSD config /etc/sssd/sssd.conf.
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  • SSSD ssh_known_hosts_timeout option

    Value of the ssh_known_hosts_timeout option in the [ssh] section of SSSD configuration file /etc/sssd/sssd.conf.
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  • Install sssd-ipa Package

    The sssd-ipa package can be installed with the following command: 
    $ sudo yum install sssd-ipa
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  • Configure PAM in SSSD Services

    SSSD should be configured to run SSSD <code>pam</code> services. To configure SSSD to known SSH hosts, add <code>pam</code> to <code>services</code...
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