The Photon operating system must configure sshd to disallow authentication with an empty password.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Blank passwords are one of the first things an attacker checks for when probing a system. Even is the user somehow has a blank password on the operating system, sshd must not allow that user to log in.
- ID
- SV-256552r991589_rule
- Version
- PHTN-30-000083
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Navigate to and open:
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
Ensure the "PermitEmptyPasswords" line is uncommented and set to the following: