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7.4 Set Default Group for root Account
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For Solaris 9 and earlier, the default group for the root account is the 'other' group, which may be shared by many other accounts on the system. Solaris 10 has adopted GID 0 (group 'root') as default group for the root account.Solution
Perform the following to implement the recommended state-passmgmt -m -g 0 root
See Also
https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/tools2/solaris/CIS_Oracle_Solaris_10_Benchmark_v5.2.0.pdf
Item Details
Audit Name: CIS Solaris 10 v5.2
Category: ACCESS CONTROL
References: 800-53|AC-2
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: bc7650028e55d9345c99a1aa74fab2d5bc016ca9a0e3175a9900dce1b089aeea