RHEL 9 must require a unique superusers name upon booting into single-user and maintenance modes.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Having a nondefault grub superuser username makes password-guessing attacks less effective.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-257789r1014822_rule
- Severity
- High
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Configure RHEL 9 to have a unique username for the grub superuser account.
Edit the "/etc/grub.d/01_users" file and add or modify the following lines with a nondefault username for the superusers account:
set superusers="<superusers-account>"
export superusers