There must be no user .rhosts files.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Even though the .rhosts files are ineffective if support is disabled in /etc/pam.conf, they may have been brought over from other systems and could contain information useful to an attacker for those other systems.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-216184r603268_rule
- Severity
- High
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
The root role is required.
Remove any .rhosts files found.
# rm [file name]