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The TOSS SSH daemon must not allow authentication using known host's authentication.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Configuring this setting for the SSH daemon provides additional assurance that remote logon via SSH will require a password, even in the event of misconfiguration elsewhere.

ID
SV-252942r991589_rule
Version
TOSS-04-010400
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the SSH daemon to not allow authentication using known host's authentication.

Add the following line in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" or uncomment the line and set the value to "yes":

IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes