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1.340 RHEL-09-611165

Information

RHEL 9 must enable certificate based smart card authentication.

GROUP ID: V-258122
RULE ID: SV-258122r1045246

Without the use of multifactor authentication, the ease of access to privileged functions is greatly increased. Multifactor authentication requires using two or more factors to achieve authentication. A privileged account is defined as an information system account with authorizations of a privileged user. The DOD Common Access Card (CAC) with DOD-approved PKI is an example of multifactor authentication.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000375-GPOS-00160, SRG-OS-000105-GPOS-00052

Solution

Edit the file "/etc/sssd/sssd.conf" or a configuration file in "/etc/sssd/conf.d" and add or edit the following line:

pam_cert_auth = True

See Also

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

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-2, 800-53|IA-2(1), 800-53|IA-2(11), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000765, CCI|CCI-001948, CCI|CCI-004046, CCI|CCI-004047, Rule-ID|SV-258122r1045246_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-09-611165, Vuln-ID|V-258122

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 2785d82aa30b8d6f8f3502eaf84452837457449a81ddaa0bc997a50a3ed242c4