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The SUSE operating system SSH daemon must be configured to not allow authentication using known hosts 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-217274r991589_rule
Version
SLES-12-030200
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the SUSE operating system SSH daemon to not allow authentication using known hosts authentication.

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

IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes