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The SUSE operating system must not have unnecessary account capabilities.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Accounts providing no operational purpose provide additional opportunities for system compromise. Therefore all necessary non-interactive accounts should not have an interactive shell assigned to them.

ID
SV-237606r991589_rule
Version
SLES-12-010631
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the SUSE operating system so that all non-interactive accounts on the system have no interactive shell assigned to them.

Run the following command to disable the interactive shell for a specific non-interactive user account:

> sudo usermod --shell /sbin/nologin nobody