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The OL 8 SSH daemon must not allow GSSAPI authentication, except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.

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-248607r991589_rule
Version
OL08-00-010522
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the SSH daemon to not allow GSSAPI authentication.

Add the following line in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config", or uncomment the line and set the value to "no":

GSSAPIAuthentication no