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AlmaLinux OS 9 must not have unauthorized accounts.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Accounts providing no operational purpose provide additional opportunities for system compromise. Unnecessary accounts include user accounts for individuals not requiring access to the system and application accounts for applications not installed on the system.

ID
SV-269238r1050120_rule
Version
ALMA-09-017950
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Remove unauthorized local interactive user accounts with the following command where <unauthorized_user> is the unauthorized account:

$ userdel  -rf <unauthorized_user>