III - Administrative Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000002-GPOS-00002
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AIX must automatically remove or disable temporary user accounts after 72 hours or sooner.
If temporary user accounts remain active when no longer needed or for an excessive period, these accounts may be used to gain unauthorized access. To mitigate this risk, automated termination of al...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005
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AIX must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid login attempts by a user before the user account is locked and released by an administrator.
By limiting the number of failed login attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-force attacks, is reduced. Limits are imposed by locking...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000027-GPOS-00008
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AIX must limit the number of concurrent sessions to 10 for all accounts and/or account types.
Operating system management includes the ability to control the number of users and user sessions that utilize an operating system. Limiting the number of allowed users and sessions per user is hel...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000066-GPOS-00034
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If the AIX system is using LDAP for authentication or account information, the LDAP SSL, or TLS connection must require the server provide a certificate and this certificate must have a valid path to a trusted CA.
Without path validation, an informed trust decision by the relying party cannot be made when presented with any certificate not already explicitly trusted.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041
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If AIX is using LDAP for authentication or account information, the /etc/ldap.conf file (or equivalent) must not contain passwords.
Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are not encrypted, they can be plainly read (i.e., clear text) and easily c...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
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All accounts on AIX system must have unique account names.
To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Organizational user...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
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All accounts on AIX must be assigned unique User Identification Numbers (UIDs) and must authenticate organizational and non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of these users).
To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Lack of authenticat...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
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The AIX SYSTEM attribute must not be set to NONE for any account.
To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Organizational user...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000109-GPOS-00056
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Direct logins to the AIX system must not be permitted to shared accounts, default accounts, application accounts, and utility accounts.
Shared accounts (accounts where two or more people log in with the same user identification) do not provide identification and authentication. There is no way to provide for non-repudiation or indi...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000112-GPOS-00057
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AIX must use the SSH server to implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged and non-privileged accounts.
A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the operating system. Authentication sessions between the authenticator and the operating system validating the user credentials mu...Rule High Severity
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