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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • All RHEL 8 local interactive user home directory files must have mode 0750 or less permissive.

    <VulnDiscussion>Excessive permissions on local interactive user home directories may allow unauthorized access to user files by other users.&...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • RHEL 8 must be configured so that all files and directories contained in local interactive user home directories are group-owned by a group of which the home directory owner is a member.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If a local interactive user's files are group-owned by a group of which the user is not a member, unintended users may be abl...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • RHEL 8 must configure the use of the pam_faillock.so module in the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
    Rule Medium Severity

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