Oracle Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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Severity

Version

V2 · R1

CurrentPublished Fri Jan 22 2021

The system must not have special privilege accounts, such as shutdown and halt.

Oracle Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

The system must not have special privilege accounts, such as shutdown and halt.

Description

Discussion Text

If special privilege accounts are compromised, the accounts could provide privileges to execute malicious commands on a system.

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Objective

V-218168

Rule

SV-218168r603259_rule

Severity

high

Rule Version

GEN000000-LNX00320

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Perform the following to check for unnecessary privileged accounts:

# grep "^shutdown" /etc/passwd
# grep "^halt" /etc/passwd
# grep "^reboot" /etc/passwd

If any unnecessary privileged accounts exist this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Remove any special privilege accounts, such as shutdown and halt, from the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files using the "userdel" or "system-config-users" commands.

STIG check 6 of 571 in the Oracle Linux 5 STIG checklist

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