The SUSE operating system 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 non interactive 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-234875r991589_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Configure the SUSE operating system so that all non-interactive accounts on the system have no interactive shell assigned to them.
Run the following command to disable the interactive shell for a specific non-interactive user account:
> sudo usermod --shell /sbin/nologin nobody