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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4
System Settings
Account and Access Control
Protect Physical Console Access
Configure Screen Locking
Hardware Tokens for Authentication
Hardware Tokens for Authentication
An XCCDF Group - A logical subset of the XCCDF Benchmark
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Hardware Tokens for Authentication
The use of hardware tokens such as smart cards for system login provides stronger, two-factor authentication than using a username and password. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers and workstations, hardware token login is not enabled by default and must be enabled in the system settings.
OpenSC Smart Card Drivers
Choose the Smart Card Driver in use by your organization.
For DoD, choose the
cac
driver.
If your driver is not listed and you don't want to use the
default
driver, use the
other
option and manually specify your driver.