AIX system must require authentication upon booting into single-user and maintenance modes.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>This prevents attackers with physical access from trivially bypassing security on the machine and gaining root access. Such accesses are further prevented by configuring the bootloader password.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-215308r991589_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Assign the "root" account a password using passwd command while logged on as "root":
# passwd