Guide to the Secure Configuration of Ubuntu 18.04
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The Chronyd service is enabled
chrony is a daemon which implements the Network Time Protocol (NTP) is designed to synchronize system clocks across a variety of systems and use a ...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable the NTP Daemon
Thentp
service can be enabled with the following command:$ sudo systemctl enable ntp.service
Rule High Severity -
Enable systemd_timesyncd Service
Thesystemd_timesyncd
service can be enabled with the following command:$ sudo systemctl enable systemd_timesyncd.service
Rule High Severity -
Ensure Chrony is only configured with the server directive
Check that Chrony only has time sources configured with theserver
directive.Rule Medium Severity -
A remote time server for Chrony is configured
<code>Chrony</code> is a daemon which implements the Network Time Protocol (NTP). It is designed to synchronize system clocks across a variety of s...Rule Medium Severity -
Obsolete Services
This section discusses a number of network-visible services which have historically caused problems for system security, and for which disabling or...Group -
Xinetd
The <code>xinetd</code> service acts as a dedicated listener for some network services (mostly, obsolete ones) and can be used to provide access co...Group -
NIS
The Network Information Service (NIS), also known as 'Yellow Pages' (YP), and its successor NIS+ have been made obsolete by Kerberos, LDAP, and oth...Group -
Rlogin, Rsh, and Rexec
The Berkeley r-commands are legacy services which allow cleartext remote access and have an insecure trust model.Group -
SSH RekeyLimit - size
Specify the size component of the rekey limit.Value
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