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Guide to the Secure Configuration of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • 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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  • Use Only Strong Ciphers

    Limit the ciphers to strong algorithms. Counter (CTR) mode is also preferred over cipher-block chaining (CBC) mode. The following line in <code>/et...
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  • Use Only Strong Key Exchange algorithms

    Limit the Key Exchange to strong algorithms. The following line in <code>/etc/ssh/sshd_config</code> demonstrates use of those: <pre>KexAlgorithms ...
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  • Prevent remote hosts from connecting to the proxy display

    The SSH daemon should prevent remote hosts from connecting to the proxy display. <br> The default SSH configuration for <code>X11UseLocalhost</code...
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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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