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1.107 SOL-11.1-040390

Information

Host-based authentication for login-based services must be disabled.

GROUP ID: V-216357
RULE ID: SV-216357r959010

The use of .rhosts authentication is an insecure protocol and can be replaced with public-key authentication using Secure Shell. As automatic authentication settings in the .rhosts files can provide a malicious user with sensitive system credentials, the use of .rhosts files should be disabled.

Solution

Note: This is the location for Solaris 11.1. For earlier versions, the information is in /etc/pam.conf.

The root role is required.

# ls -l /etc/pam.d

to identify the various configuration files used by PAM.

Search each file for the pam_rhosts_auth.so.1 entry.

# grep pam_rhosts_auth.so.1 [filename]

Identify the file with the line pam_hosts_auth.so.1 in it.

# pfedit [filename]

Insert a comment character (#) at the beginning of the line containing "pam_hosts_auth.so.1".

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23765

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-216357r959010_rule, STIG-ID|SOL-11.1-040390, Vuln-ID|V-216357

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: b49b877669210f7131b79e0f55b4c37cd99f73528610c83dfbbf7bfe1181bcf2