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1.92 OL08-00-010522

Information

The OL 8 SSH daemon must not allow GSSAPI authentication, except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.

GROUP ID: V-248607
RULE ID: SV-248607r991589

Configuring this setting for the SSH daemon provides additional assurance that remote logon via SSH will require a password, even in the event of misconfiguration elsewhere.

Solution

Configure the SSH daemon to not allow GSSAPI authentication.

Add the following line in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config", or uncomment the line and set the value to "no":

GSSAPIAuthentication no

The SSH daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect. To restart the SSH daemon, run the following command:

$ sudo systemctl restart sshd.service

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23791

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-248607r991589_rule, STIG-ID|OL08-00-010522, Vuln-ID|V-248607

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 75c58c0832ec8c61317f28c7a283ca383b90eadbacd6790cb441d7f8adb0e817