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NIST National Checklist Program Security Guide

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Uninstall Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (abrt)

    The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (<code>abrt</code>) collects and reports crash data when an application crash is detected. Using a variety of plug...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Disable KDump Kernel Crash Analyzer (kdump)

    The <code>kdump</code> service provides a kernel crash dump analyzer. It uses the <code>kexec</code> system call to boot a secondary kernel ("captu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Cron and At Daemons

    The cron and at services are used to allow commands to be executed at a later time. The cron service is required by almost all systems to perform n...
    Group
  • Enable cron Service

    The <code>crond</code> service is used to execute commands at preconfigured times. It is required by almost all systems to perform necessary mainte...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Restrict at and cron to Authorized Users if Necessary

    The <code>/etc/cron.allow</code> and <code>/etc/at.allow</code> files contain lists of users who are allowed to use <code>cron</code> and at to del...
    Group
  • Verify Group Who Owns /etc/cron.allow file

    If <code>/etc/cron.allow</code> exists, it must be group-owned by <code>root</code>. To properly set the group owner of <code>/etc/cron.allow</cod...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify User Who Owns /etc/cron.allow file

    If <code>/etc/cron.allow</code> exists, it must be owned by <code>root</code>. To properly set the owner of <code>/etc/cron.allow</code>, run the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • LDAP

    LDAP is a popular directory service, that is, a standardized way of looking up information from a central database. Oracle Linux 7 includes softwar...
    Group
  • Configure OpenLDAP Clients

    This section provides information on which security settings are important to configure in OpenLDAP clients by manually editing the appropriate con...
    Group
  • Configure LDAP Client to Use TLS For All Transactions

    This check verifies cryptography has been implemented to protect the integrity of remote LDAP authentication sessions. <br><br> To determine if LDA...
    Rule Medium Severity

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