VPP - Protection Profile for Virtualization v. 1.0 for Red Hat Virtualization Host (RHVH)
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Disable Compression Or Set Compression to delayed
Compression is useful for slow network connections over long distances but can cause performance issues on local LANs. If use of compression is req...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable SSH Access via Empty Passwords
Disallow SSH login with empty passwords. The default SSH configuration disables logins with empty passwords. The appropriate configuration is used ...Rule High Severity -
Disable GSSAPI Authentication
Unless needed, SSH should not permit extraneous or unnecessary authentication mechanisms like GSSAPI. <br> The default SSH configuration disallows ...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable Kerberos Authentication
Unless needed, SSH should not permit extraneous or unnecessary authentication mechanisms like Kerberos. <br> The default SSH configuration disallow...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable SSH Root Login
The root user should never be allowed to login to a system directly over a network. To disable root login via SSH, add or correct the following lin...Rule Medium Severity -
Do Not Allow SSH Environment Options
Ensure that users are not able to override environment variables of the SSH daemon. <br> The default SSH configuration disables environment process...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable Use of Strict Mode Checking
SSHs <code>StrictModes</code> option checks file and ownership permissions in the user's home directory <code>.ssh</code> folder before accepting l...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable SSH Warning Banner
To enable the warning banner and ensure it is consistent across the system, add or correct the following line in <code>/etc/ssh/sshd_config</code...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable SSH Print Last Log
Ensure that SSH will display the date and time of the last successful account logon. <br> The default SSH configuration enables print of the date a...Rule Medium Severity -
Set LogLevel to INFO
The INFO parameter specifices that record login and logout activity will be logged. <br> The default SSH configuration sets the log level to INFO. ...Rule Low Severity -
Enable Use of Privilege Separation
When enabled, SSH will create an unprivileged child process that has the privilege of the authenticated user. To enable privilege separation in SSH...Rule Medium Severity -
System Security Services Daemon
The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) is a system daemon that provides access to different identity and authentication providers such as Red H...Group -
Enable Smartcards in SSSD
SSSD should be configured to authenticate access to the system using smart cards. To enable smart cards in SSSD, set <code>pam_cert_auth</code> to ...Rule Medium Severity
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