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SLEM 5 must not have unnecessary account capabilities.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Accounts providing no operational purpose provide additional opportunities for system compromise. Therefore all necessary noninteractive accounts should not have an interactive shell assigned to them.

ID
SV-261358r996829_rule
Version
SLEM-05-411060
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure SLEM 5 so that all noninteractive accounts on the system have no interactive shell assigned to them.

Run the following command to disable the interactive shell for a specific noninteractive user account:

     > sudo usermod --shell /sbin/nologin nobody