Security Profile of Oracle Linux 7 for SAP
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Services
The best protection against vulnerable software is running less software. This section describes how to review the software which Oracle Linux 7 installs on a system and disable software which is n...Group -
Obsolete Services
This section discusses a number of network-visible services which have historically caused problems for system security, and for which disabling or severely limiting the service has been the best a...Group -
NIS
The Network Information Service (NIS), also known as 'Yellow Pages' (YP), and its successor NIS+ have been made obsolete by Kerberos, LDAP, and other modern centralized authentication services. NIS...Group -
Remove NIS Client
The Network Information Service (NIS), formerly known as Yellow Pages, is a client-server directory service protocol used to distribute system configuration files. The NIS client (<code>ypbind</cod...Rule Unknown Severity -
Uninstall ypserv Package
Theypserv
package can be removed with the following command:$ sudo yum erase ypserv
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Rlogin, Rsh, and Rexec
The Berkeley r-commands are legacy services which allow cleartext remote access and have an insecure trust model.Group -
Disable rlogin Service
The <code>rlogin</code> service, which is available with the <code>rsh-server</code> package and runs as a service through xinetd or separately as a systemd socket, should be disabled. If using xin...Rule High Severity -
Disable rsh Service
The <code>rsh</code> service, which is available with the <code>rsh-server</code> package and runs as a service through xinetd or separately as a systemd socket, should be disabled. If using xinetd...Rule High Severity -
Remove Rsh Trust Files
The files <code>/etc/hosts.equiv</code> and <code>~/.rhosts</code> (in each user's home directory) list remote hosts and users that are trusted by the local system when using the rshd daemon. To re...Rule High Severity
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