The Photon operating system must configure Secure Shell (SSH) 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 if the user somehow has a blank password on the OS, SSH must not allow that user to log in.
- ID
- SV-258870r933671_rule
- Version
- PHTN-40-000207
- Severity
- High
- 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: