HP-UX 11.31 Security Technical Implementation Guide

The HP-UX 11.31 Security Technical Implementation Guide (V1 R19) has 525 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 · R19

CurrentPublished Fri Jan 25 2019

The at directory must be group-owned by root, bin, sys or other.

HP-UX 11.31 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

The at directory must be group-owned by root, bin, sys or other.

Description

Discussion Text

If the group of the at directory is not root, bin, sys or other, unauthorized users could be allowed to view or edit files containing sensitive information within the directory.

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Objective

V-22396

Rule

SV-34995r1_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

GEN003430

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Check the group ownership of the file.

Procedure:
# ls -lLd /var/spool/cron/atjobs

If the file is not group-owned by root, bin, sys or other this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Change the group ownership of the file to root, bin, sys or other.

# chgrp root /var/spool/cron/atjobs

STIG check 159 of 525 in the HP-UX 11.31 STIG checklist

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