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1.194 SLES-15-040260

Information

The SUSE operating system SSH daemon must perform strict mode checking of home directory configuration files.

GROUP ID: V-235010
RULE ID: SV-235010r991589

If other users have access to modify user-specific SSH configuration files, they may be able to log on to the system as another user.

Solution

Configure the SUSE operating system SSH daemon performs strict mode checking of home directory configuration files.

Uncomment the "StrictModes" keyword in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" and set the value to "yes":

StrictModes yes

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23779

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-235010r991589_rule, STIG-ID|SLES-15-040260, Vuln-ID|V-235010

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: f2ebd861ac57f1c56acabd8a8bc5dac74965afb938af9f57d5bcf49f0c65a01a