CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Benchmark for Level 1 - Workstation
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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...Rule Medium Severity -
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 -
Obsolete Services
This section discusses a number of network-visible services which have historically caused problems for system security, and for which disabling or...Group -
Uninstall rsync Package
The rsyncd service can be used to synchronize files between systems over network links. The <code>rsync-daemon</code> package can be removed with t...Rule Medium Severity -
Rlogin, Rsh, and Rexec
The Berkeley r-commands are legacy services which allow cleartext remote access and have an insecure trust model.Group -
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 ...Rule High Severity -
Telnet
The telnet protocol does not provide confidentiality or integrity for information transmitted on the network. This includes authentication informat...Group -
Uninstall telnet-server Package
Thetelnet-server
package can be removed with the following command:$ sudo dnf erase telnet-server
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Remove telnet Clients
The telnet client allows users to start connections to other systems via the telnet protocol.Rule Low Severity -
TFTP Server
TFTP is a lightweight version of the FTP protocol which has traditionally been used to configure networking equipment. However, TFTP provides littl...Group
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