The Photon operating system must disable the debug-shell service.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
The debug-shell service is intended to diagnose systemd-related boot issues with various "systemctl" commands. Once enabled and following a system reboot, the root shell will be available on tty9. This service must remain disabled until and unless otherwise directed by VMware support.
- ID
- SV-256546r991589_rule
- Version
- PHTN-30-000076
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
At the command line, run the following commands:
# systemctl stop debug-shell.service
# systemctl disable debug-shell.service
Reboot for changes to take effect.