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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
System Settings
Account and Access Control
Ensure system-auth and password-auth files are symbolic links pointing to system-auth-local and password-auth-local
Ensure system-auth and password-auth files are symbolic links pointing to system-auth-local and password-auth-local
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Ensure system-auth and password-auth files are symbolic links pointing to system-auth-local and password-auth-local
Medium Severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 must be configured to prevent overwriting of custom authentication configuration settings by the authconfig utility. This can be avoided by creating new local configuration files and creating new or moving existing symbolic links to them. The authconfig utility will recognize the local configuration files and not overwrite them, while writing its own settings to the original configuration files.