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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
System Settings
Account and Access Control
Protect Accounts by Restricting Password-Based Login
Restrict Root Logins
Ensure the Group Used by pam_wheel.so Module Exists on System and is Empty
Ensure the Group Used by pam_wheel.so Module Exists on System and is Empty
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Ensure the Group Used by pam_wheel.so Module Exists on System and is Empty
Medium Severity
Ensure that the group
referenced by
var_pam_wheel_group_for_su
variable and used as value for the
pam_wheel.so
group
option exists and has no members. This empty group used by
pam_wheel.so
in
/etc/pam.d/su
ensures that no user can run commands with altered privileges through the
su
command.