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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The Photon operating system must configure Secure Shell (SSH) to ignore user-specific known_host files.

    SSH trust relationships enable trivial lateral spread after a host compromise and therefore must be explicitly disabled. Individual users can have a local list of trusted remote machines, which mus...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The Photon operating system must configure Secure Shell (SSH) to limit the number of allowed login attempts per connection.

    By setting the login attempt limit to a low value, an attacker will be forced to reconnect frequently, which severely limits the speed and effectiveness of brute-force attacks.
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The Photon operating system must configure Secure Shell (SSH) to restrict AllowTcpForwarding.

    While enabling TCP tunnels is a valuable function of sshd, this feature is not appropriate for use on single purpose appliances.
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The Photon operating system must configure Secure Shell (SSH) to restrict LoginGraceTime.

    By default, SSH unauthenticated connections are left open for two minutes before being closed. This setting is too permissive as no legitimate login would need such an amount of time to complete a ...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The Photon operating system must be configured so that the x86 Ctrl-Alt-Delete key sequence is disabled on the command line.

    When the Ctrl-Alt-Del target is enabled, a locally logged-on user who presses Ctrl-Alt-Delete, when at the console, can reboot the system. If accidentally pressed, as could happen in the case of a ...
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