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IBM z/OS Started tasks for the Base TCP/IP component must be defined in accordance with security requirements.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors). Organizational users (and processes acting on behalf of users) must be uniquely identified and authenticated to all accesses, except for the following: 1) Accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization. Organizations document specific user actions that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication; and 2) Accesses that occur through authorized use of group authenticators without individual authentication. Organizations may require unique identification of individuals in group accounts (e.g., shared privilege accounts) or for detailed accountability of individual activity.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-223605r958482_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Define the Started tasks for the Base TCP/IP component user accounts with the following characteristics:

Named TCPIP or, in the case of multiple instances, prefixed with TCPIP
Defined with the STC, MUSASS, and NO-SMC attributes
z/OS UNIX attributes: UID(0), HOME directory '/', shell program /bin/sh