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IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • AIX default system accounts (with the exception of root) must not be listed in the cron.allow file or must be included in the cron.deny file, if cron.allow does not exist.

    <VulnDiscussion>To centralize the management of privileged account crontabs, of the default system accounts, only root may have a crontab.&lt...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The AIX root account must not have world-writable directories in its executable search path.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the root search path contains a world-writable directory, malicious software could be placed in the path by intruders and/...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Group Identifiers (GIDs) reserved for AIX system accounts must not be assigned to non-system accounts as their primary group GID.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Reserved GIDs are typically used by system software packages. If non-system groups have GIDs in this range, they may conflict...
    Rule Medium Severity

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