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Public Cloud Hardening for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Verify Permissions on Important Files and Directories

    Permissions for many files on a system must be set restrictively to ensure sensitive information is properly protected. This section discusses impo...
    Group
  • Verify Permissions on Files with Local Account Information and Credentials

    The default restrictive permissions for files which act as important security databases such as <code>passwd</code>, <code>shadow</code>, <code>gro...
    Group
  • Verify Permissions and Ownership of Old Passwords File

    To properly set the owner of <code>/etc/security/opasswd</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chown root /etc/security/opasswd </pre> To properly ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Permissions on Backup shadow File

    To properly set the permissions of /etc/shadow-, run the command:
    $ sudo chmod 0000 /etc/shadow-
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Permissions on shadow File

    To properly set the permissions of /etc/shadow, run the command:
    $ sudo chmod 0640 /etc/shadow
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify File Permissions Within Some Important Directories

    Some directories contain files whose confidentiality or integrity is notably important and may also be susceptible to misconfiguration over time, p...
    Group
  • Verify that system commands files are group owned by root or a system account

    System commands files are stored in the following directories by default: <pre>/bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin </pre> ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Restrict Dynamic Mounting and Unmounting of Filesystems

    Linux includes a number of facilities for the automated addition and removal of filesystems on a running system. These facilities may be necessary...
    Group
  • Disable Mounting of squashfs

    To configure the system to prevent the <code>squashfs</code> kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to the file <code>/etc/modpro...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Disable Mounting of udf

    To configure the system to prevent the <code>udf</code> kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to the file <code>/etc/modprobe.d/...
    Rule Low Severity

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