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GEN000880 - The root account must be the only account having a UID of 0.

Information

If an account has a UID of 0, it has root authority. Multiple accounts with a UID of 0 afford more opportunity for potential intruders to guess a password for a privileged account.

Solution

Remove or change the UID of accounts other than root that have UID 0.

See Also

http://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_RedHat_5_V1R18_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Group-ID|V-773, Rule-ID|SV-37347r2_rule, STIG-ID|GEN000880, Vuln-ID|V-773

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: fddcd12ab7351d8ff5bfb50c8ba97378e2d01120aa40b990740f672e04281022