SV-27149r1: Remote consoles must be disabled or protected from unauthorized access. | AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

Remote consoles must be disabled or protected from unauthorized access.

Description

Discussion Text

The remote console feature provides an additional means of access to the system which could allow unauthorized access if not disabled or properly secured. With virtualization technologies, remote console access is essential as there is no physical console for virtual machines. Remote console access must be protected in the same manner as any other remote privileged access method.

How this relates to the STIG checklist: STIG vs SCAP benchmark.

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Not mappedCCI-000070

Additional Details

Responsibility

System Administrator

IA Controls

ECSC-1

References

DPMS Target AIX 6.1 DISA DPMS Target AIX 6.1 2176

SCC Automation Reference

The reconstructed evaluation script behind this rule's OVAL check(s) — every module a compound check combines, with this rule's own concrete values and DISA's SCC tool's real per-module mechanism curated from static teardown of SCC releases.

#!/bin/bash
# Reconstructed from oval:mil.disa.fso.aix11:def:61
# Remote consoles must be disabled or protected from unauthorized access.
# Per-module read mechanism curated from static teardown of DISA's SCC tool
# (SCAP Compliance Checker) -- see the SCC Automation Reference above.

# no unexpected device stanzas
# textfilecontent54_object (textfilecontent54_test)
test_1() {
  (sed -En 's/^([^:*
]+):$/\1/p' '/etc/security/login.cfg') | grep -Pq '^(default|/dev/console|usw)$'
}

if test_1; then
  echo "PASS"
else
  echo "FAIL"
fi

Assessment Script Powered by AISandbox-executed

A standalone Shell script to assess this control automatically. Review before running it in your environment.

Syntax-checked and actually executed in an isolated sandbox (not the real system this checks) — confirmed to run without errors.

#!/bin/sh
# OVAL Definition: oval:mil.disa.fso.aix11:def:61
if [ ! -f "/etc/security/login.cfg" ]; then echo "PASS"; exit 0; fi
if grep -qE "^default|/dev/console|usw$" /etc/security/login.cfg; then echo "FAIL"; exit 1; fi
echo "PASS"; exit 0

Remediation

Edit /etc/security/login.cfg and remove the alternate console definition.