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