OL6-00-000297 - Temporary accounts must be provisioned with an expiration date.

Information

When temporary accounts are created, there is a risk they may remain in place and active after the need for them no longer exists. Account expiration greatly reduces the risk of accounts being misused or hijacked.

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Solution

In the event temporary accounts are required, configure the system to terminate them after a documented time period.

For every temporary account, run the following command to set an expiration date on it, substituting '[USER]' and '[YYYY-MM-DD]' appropriately:

# chage -E [YYYY-MM-DD] [USER]

'[YYYY-MM-DD]' indicates the documented expiration date for the account.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Oracle_Linux_6_V2R7_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-2(2), CAT|III, CCI|CCI-000016, Rule-ID|SV-209027r793748_rule, STIG-ID|OL6-00-000297, STIG-Legacy|SV-65197, STIG-Legacy|V-50991, Vuln-ID|V-209027

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 8b508b9c81f3fcd8e2adde77e084e387d77429258be08dda800afbb3e28016ae