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Assessment Title
Rule Text
Host-based authentication for login-based services must be disabled.
Description
Discussion Text
The use of .rhosts authentication is an insecure protocol and can be replaced with public-key authentication using Secure Shell. As automatic authentication settings in the .rhosts files can provide a malicious user with sensitive system credentials, the use of .rhosts files should be disabled.
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