SLEM 5 must not have unnecessary account capabilities.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>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.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-261358r996829_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - 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