Ensure no users have .rhosts files

FaibleNiveau 2Revue manuellecos

Description

While no .rhosts files are shipped by default, users can easily create them. This action is only meaningful if .rhosts support is permitted in the file /etc/pam.conf . Even though the .rhosts files are ineffective if support is disabled in /etc/pam.conf , they may have been brought over from other systems and could contain information useful to an attacker for those other systems.

Méthode de vérification

Méthode d'audit: Revue manuelle

Cette recommandation ne peut pas être vérifiée automatiquement. Une analyse la liste avec ces instructions lorsque vous passez --include-manual.

Run the following script and verify no results are returned: #!/bin/bash grep -E -v '^(root|system-halt|sync|system-shutdown)' /etc/passwd | awk -F: '($7 != "'"$(which nologin)"'" && $7 != "/bin/false") { print $1 " " $6 }' | while read user dir; do if [ ! -d "$dir" ]; then echo "The home directory ($dir) of user $user does not exist." else for file in $dir/.rhosts; do if [ ! -h "$file" -a -f "$file" ]; then echo ".rhosts file in $dir" fi done fi done

Méthode de correction

Méthode de correction: Recommandation ou correctif d'infrastructure

Making global modifications to users' files without alerting the user community can result in unexpected outages and unhappy users. Therefore, it is recommended that a monitoring policy be established to report user .rhosts files and determine the action to be taken in accordance with site policy.

Propriétés

Systèmes d'exploitation: Tous
Étiquettes: container-optimized-oscos
Référence: CIS Google Container-Optimized OS Benchmark v1.2.0 - 6.2.14 Ensure no users have .rhosts files