TMA-AIX-4.8.1
Ensure root access is controlled
Description
Restricts access to root via su to members of a specific group. Direct login via console and/or remote login via telnet is blocked. For accountability, no direct access to root is allowed. The attributes here control access to root for programs other than OpenSSH. Setting the sugroups attribute to SUADMIN ensures that only members of the this group are able to su root. Audit: root must have login=false and rlogin=false, and su must be restricted by sugroups (not ALL).
How it is checked
Audit method: Shell command
command -v lsuser >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1; out=$(lsuser -a login rlogin su sugroups root 2>/dev/null) || exit 1; r=compliant; case " $out " in *" login=true "*|*" rlogin=true "*) r="$out";; esac; case " $out " in *" su=false "*) ;; *" sugroups=ALL "*|*" sugroups= "*) r="$out";; esac; case "$out" in *sugroups=*) ;; *) r="$out";; esac; echo "$r"- Expected output
compliant
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
In /etc/security/user, set the root stanza sugroups attribute to SUADMIN and ensure the login and rlogin attributes are set to false: lsgroup SUADMIN >/dev/null || mkgroup -a SUADMIN chuser login=false rlogin=false sugroups=SUADMIN root NOTE: For the remediation the setting of su is irrelevant.
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- aixaccounts
- Reference
- CIS IBM AIX 7 Benchmark v1.2.0 - 4.8.1 Ensure root access is controlled
Check this host
Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.
tmaegis scan --target aix