The RHEL 8 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-230290r1017100_rule
- Version
- RHEL-08-010520
- 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