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1.180 RHEL-09-252070

Information

There must be no shosts.equiv files on RHEL 9.

GROUP ID: V-257955
RULE ID: SV-257955r991589

The shosts.equiv files are used to configure host-based authentication for the system via SSH. Host-based authentication is not sufficient for preventing unauthorized access to the system, as it does not require interactive identification and authentication of a connection request, or for the use of two-factor authentication.

Solution

Remove any found "shosts.equiv" files from the system.

$ sudo rm /[path]/[to]/[file]/shosts.equiv

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/22008

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|I, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-257955r991589_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-09-252070, Vuln-ID|V-257955

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 417d23cb2c723fe28282bcc357b90eb17a4ffb6e67c19c3aeaa082c2ef8e3a28