AIX must turn on SSH daemon privilege separation.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
SSH daemon privilege separation causes the SSH process to drop root privileges when not needed, which would decrease the impact of software vulnerabilities in the unprivileged section.
- ID
- SV-215297r991589_rule
- Version
- AIX7-00-002114
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Edit the "/etc/sshd/sshd_config" file and add the following line:
UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
Restart the SSH daemon:
# stopsrc -s sshd
# startsrc -s sshd