Unclassified Information in Non-federal Information Systems and Organizations (NIST 800-171)
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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 -
Application Whitelisting Daemon
Fapolicyd (File Access Policy Daemon) implements application whitelisting to decide file access rights. Applications that are known via a reputatio...Group -
Install fapolicyd Package
Thefapolicyd
package can be installed with the following command:$ sudo yum install fapolicyd
Rule Medium Severity -
Enable the File Access Policy Service
The File Access Policy service should be enabled. The <code>fapolicyd</code> service can be enabled with the following command: <pre>$ sudo system...Rule Medium Severity -
Kerberos
The Kerberos protocol is used for authentication across non-secure network. Authentication can happen between various types of principals -- users,...Group -
Disable Kerberos by removing host keytab
Kerberos is not an approved key distribution method for Common Criteria. To prevent using Kerberos by system daemons, remove the Kerberos keytab fi...Rule Medium Severity -
Mail Server Software
Mail servers are used to send and receive email over the network. Mail is a very common service, and Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) are obvious target...Group -
Uninstall Sendmail Package
Sendmail is not the default mail transfer agent and is not installed by default. The <code>sendmail</code> package can be removed with the followin...Rule Medium Severity -
NFS and RPC
The Network File System is a popular distributed filesystem for the Unix environment, and is very widely deployed. This section discusses the circ...Group -
Uninstall nfs-utils Package
Thenfs-utils
package can be removed with the following command:$ sudo yum erase nfs-utils
Rule Low Severity
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