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 /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/user.cfg User Ownership
The file <code>/boot/efi/EFI/redhat/user.cfg</code> should be owned by the <code>root</code> user to prevent reading or modification of the file. ...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify the UEFI Boot Loader grub.cfg Permissions
File permissions for <code>/boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.cfg</code> should be set to 700. To properly set the permissions of <code>/boot/efi/EFI/redha...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/user.cfg Permissions
File permissions for <code>/boot/efi/EFI/redhat/user.cfg</code> should be set to 600. To properly set the permissions of <code>/boot/efi/EFI/redha...Rule Medium Severity -
Set the UEFI Boot Loader Admin Username to a Non-Default Value
The grub2 boot loader should have a superuser account and password protection enabled to protect boot-time settings. <br><br> To maximize the prote...Rule Medium Severity -
Set the UEFI Boot Loader Password
The grub2 boot loader should have a superuser account and password protection enabled to protect boot-time settings. <br><br> Since plaintext passw...Rule High Severity -
UEFI Boot Loader Is Not Installed On Removeable Media
The system must not allow removable media to be used as the boot loader. Remove alternate methods of booting the system from removable media. <code...Rule Medium Severity -
zIPL bootloader configuration
During the boot process, the bootloader is responsible for starting the execution of the kernel and passing options to it. The default Red Hat Ente...Group -
Protect Random-Number Entropy Pool
The I/O operations of the Linux kernel block layer due to their inherently unpredictable execution times have been traditionally considered as a re...Group -
Ensure Solid State Drives Do Not Contribute To Random-Number Entropy Pool
For each solid-state drive on the system, run:# echo 0 > /sys/block/DRIVE/queue/add_random
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Kernel Configuration
Contains rules that check the kernel configuration that was used to build it.Group
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