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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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Sudo
The operating system must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel
The operating system must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel
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The operating system must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel
Medium Severity
The sudo command allows a user to execute programs with elevated (administrator) privileges. It prompts the user for their password and confirms your request to execute a command by checking a file, called sudoers. Restrict privileged actions by removing the following entries from the sudoers file:
ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL
ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL