The operating system must require individuals to be authenticated with an individual authenticator prior to using a group authenticator.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Allowing any user to elevate their privileges can allow them excessive control of the system tools.
- ID
- SV-216340r1016277_rule
- Version
- SOL-11.1-040230
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
The root role is required.
Convert the root user into a role.
# usermod -K type=role root