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III - Administrative Public

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    Group
  • AIX administrative accounts must not run a web browser, except as needed for local service administration.

    If a web browser flaw is exploited while running as a privileged user, the entire system could be compromised. Specific exceptions for local service administration should be documented in site-de...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    Group
  • AIX default system accounts (with the exception of root) must not be listed in the cron.allow file or must be included in the cron.deny file, if cron.allow does not exist.

    To centralize the management of privileged account crontabs, of the default system accounts, only root may have a crontab.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    Group
  • The AIX root account must not have world-writable directories in its executable search path.

    If the root search path contains a world-writable directory, malicious software could be placed in the path by intruders and/or malicious users and inadvertently run by root with all of root's priv...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    Group
  • The Group Identifiers (GIDs) reserved for AIX system accounts must not be assigned to non-system accounts as their primary group GID.

    Reserved GIDs are typically used by system software packages. If non-system groups have GIDs in this range, they may conflict with system software, possibly leading to the group having permissions ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    Group
  • UIDs reserved for system accounts must not be assigned to non-system accounts on AIX systems.

    Reserved UIDs are typically used by system software packages. If non-system accounts have UIDs in this range, they may conflict with system software, possibly leading to the user having permissions...
    Rule Medium Severity

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