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CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Benchmark for Level 2 - Server

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  • Ensure that chronyd is running under chrony user account

    chrony is a daemon which implements the Network Time Protocol (NTP). It is designed to synchronize system clocks across a variety of systems and us...
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  • A remote time server for Chrony is configured

    <code>Chrony</code> is a daemon which implements the Network Time Protocol (NTP). It is designed to synchronize system clocks across a variety of s...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • Obsolete Services

    This section discusses a number of network-visible services which have historically caused problems for system security, and for which disabling or...
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  • Uninstall rsync Package

    The rsyncd service can be used to synchronize files between systems over network links. The <code>rsync</code> package can be removed with the foll...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • Xinetd

    The <code>xinetd</code> service acts as a dedicated listener for some network services (mostly, obsolete ones) and can be used to provide access co...
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  • Uninstall xinetd Package

    The xinetd package can be removed with the following command: 
    $ sudo yum erase xinetd
    Rule Low Severity
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  • NIS

    The Network Information Service (NIS), also known as 'Yellow Pages' (YP), and its successor NIS+ have been made obsolete by Kerberos, LDAP, and oth...
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  • Remove NIS Client

    The Network Information Service (NIS), formerly known as Yellow Pages, is a client-server directory service protocol used to distribute system conf...
    Rule Unknown Severity
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  • Uninstall ypserv Package

    The ypserv package can be removed with the following command: 
    $ sudo yum erase ypserv
    Rule High Severity
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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.
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