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 NFS share configuration file must be group-owned by root, bin, sys or other.

HP-UX 11.31 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

The NFS share configuration file must be group-owned by root, bin, sys or other.

Description

Discussion Text

Failure to give group ownership of the NFS share configuration file to root, bin, sys or other provides the designated group owner and possible unauthorized users with the potential to change system configuration which could weaken the system's security posture.

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Objective

V-22492

Rule

SV-35183r1_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

GEN005750

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Check the group ownership of the NFS share configuration file.
# echo `ls -lL /etc/dfs/dfstab` | tr '\011' ' ' | tr -s  ' ' | sed -e 's/^[  \t]*//'  | cut -f 4,4 -d " "

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 NFS share configuration file.

# chgrp root /etc/dfs/dfstab

STIG check 234 of 525 in the HP-UX 11.31 STIG checklist

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