Solaris 10 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide

The Solaris 10 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide (V2 R4) has 507 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

V2 · R4

CurrentPublished Thu Jan 26 2023

All .rhosts, .shosts, .netrc, or hosts.equiv files must be accessible by only root or the owner.

Solaris 10 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

All .rhosts, .shosts, .netrc, or hosts.equiv files must be accessible by only root or the owner.

Description

Discussion Text

If these files are accessible by users other than root or the owner, they could be used by a malicious user to set up a system compromise.

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Objective

V-226564

Rule

SV-226564r603265_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

GEN002060

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

# for i in `cut -d: -f6 /etc/passwd | awk '$1 == "" {$1 = "/"} {print $1}'`; do ls -l $i/.rhosts $i/.shosts $i/.netrc; done
# ls -l /etc/hosts.equiv
# ls -l /etc/ssh/shosts.equiv

If the .netrc, .rhosts, .shosts, hosts.equiv, or shosts.equiv files have permissions greater than 600, then this is a finding.  (If a password entry has no home directory assigned, the root directory (/) is used as a default.)

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Ensure the permission for these files is set at 600 or less and the owner is the owner of the home directory that it is in. These files, outside of home directories (other than hosts.equiv in /etc and shosts.equiv in /etc/ssh; both are owned by root), have no meaning.

STIG check 210 of 507 in the Solaris 10 SPARC STIG checklist

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