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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
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Enforce usage of pam_wheel for su authentication
Enforce usage of pam_wheel for su authentication
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Enforce usage of pam_wheel for su authentication
Medium Severity
To ensure that only users who are members of the
wheel
group can run commands with altered privileges through the
su
command, make sure that the following line exists in the file
/etc/pam.d/su
:
auth required pam_wheel.so use_uid