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Disable Background Processing

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Chromium can be set to run at all times and process in the background. This should be disabled by setting BackgroundModeEnabled to false in the Chromium policy file.

Rationale

There is two reasons that this is not wanted. First, it can tie up system resources that might otherwise be needed. Second, it does not make it obvious to the user that it is running and poorly written extensions could cause instability on the system.

ID
xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_chromium_disable_background_processing
Severity
Unknown
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Shell Script

if ! grep -q BackgroundModeEnabled /etc/chromium/policies/managed/chrome_stig_policy.json; then
   sed -i -e '/{/a \  "'BackgroundModeEnabled'": 'false',' /etc/chromium/policies/managed/chrome_stig_policy.json
else
   sed -i -e 's/\"'BackgroundModeEnabled'.*/\"'BackgroundModeEnabled'\": 'false',/g' /etc/chromium/policies/managed/chrome_stig_policy.json
fi