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The nobody access for RPC encryption key storage service must be disabled.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>If login by the user "nobody" is allowed for secure RPC, there is an increased risk of system compromise. If keyserv holds a private key for the "nobody" user, it will be used by key_encryptsession to compute a magic phrase which can be easily recovered by a malicious user.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-216350r603267_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Determine if the rpc-authdes package is installed:

# pkg list solaris/legacy/security/rpc-authdes

If the output of this command is: