HP-UX 11.23 Security Technical Implementation Guide

The HP-UX 11.23 Security Technical Implementation Guide (V1 R8) has 534 STIG checks. New to STIG checklists? Read What is a STIG checklist?, CKL vs CKLB, and STIG vs SCAP benchmark.

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Version

V1 · R8

CurrentPublished Fri Jan 22 2016

GIDs reserved for system accounts must not be assigned to non-system groups.

HP-UX 11.23 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

GIDs reserved for system accounts must not be assigned to non-system groups.

Description

Discussion Text

Reserved GIDs are typically used by system software packages. If non-system groups have GIDs in this range, they may conflict with system software, possibly leading to the group having permissions to modify system files.

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Objective

V-780

Rule

SV-38454r1_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

GEN000360

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Confirm all accounts with a GID of 99 and below are used by a system account. If a GID reserved for system accounts (0 - 99) is used by a non-system account, this is a finding. The vendor-supplied system default group "users" (gid=20) is considered an exception to this check.

# cat /etc/passwd | cut -f 1,4 -d ":"

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Change the primary group GID numbers for non-system accounts with reserved primary group GIDs (those less or equal to 99).

# usermod -g <new_group> <user>

STIG check 417 of 534 in the HP-UX 11.23 STIG checklist

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