SV-226565r603265: The .rhosts file must not be supported in PAM. | Solaris 10 SPARC STIG SCAP Benchmark

Loading benchmark…

Assessment Title

Rule Text

The .rhosts file must not be supported in PAM.

Description

Discussion Text

The .rhosts files are used to specify a list of hosts that are permitted remote access to a particular account without authenticating. The use of such a mechanism defeats strong identification and authentication requirements.

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

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Not mappedCCI-000366CCE-4021-2SV-40334V-11989

References

DPMS Target Solaris 10 SPARC DISA DPMS Target Solaris 10 SPARC 4060

Checks

DISA STIG (Manual Reference)

Check the PAM configuration for rhosts_auth.

Procedure:
# grep rhosts_auth /etc/pam.conf

If a rhosts_auth entry is found that is not commented out, this is a finding.

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.solaris11:def:136
# The .rhosts file must not be supported in PAM.
# Per-module read mechanism curated from static teardown of DISA's SCC tool
# (SCAP Compliance Checker) -- see the SCC Automation Reference above.

# No rhosts_auth line in /etc/pam.conf.
# textfilecontent54_object (textfilecontent54_test)
test_1() {
  ! ( grep -Pq '^[^#]*rhosts_auth' '/etc/pam.conf' &>/dev/null )
}

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.solaris11:def:136
if [ ! -f "/etc/pam.conf" ]; then echo "PASS"; exit 0; fi; if grep -q "^[^#]*rhosts_auth" /etc/pam.conf; then echo "FAIL"; exit 1; else echo "PASS"; exit 0; fi

Remediation

Edit /etc/pam.conf and remove the reference(s) to the rhosts_auth module.