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RHEL-10-701220 - RHEL 10 must enable certificate-based smart card authentication.

Information

Without the use of multifactor authentication, the ease of access to privileged functions is greatly increased. Multifactor authentication requires using two or more factors to achieve authentication. A privileged account is defined as an information system account with authorizations of a privileged user. The DOD Common Access Card (CAC) with DOD-approved public key infrastructure (PKI) is an example of multifactor authentication.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000375-GPOS-00160, SRG-OS-000105-GPOS-00052, SRG-OS-000106-GPOS-00053, SRG-OS-000107-GPOS-00054, SRG-OS-000108-GPOS-00055

Solution

Configure RHEL 10 to enable certificate-based smart card authentication.

Edit the file "/etc/sssd/sssd.conf" or a configuration file in "/etc/sssd/conf.d" and add or edit the following line:

pam_cert_auth = True

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_RHEL_10_V1R1_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-2(1), 800-53|IA-2(2), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000765, CCI|CCI-000766, CCI|CCI-004046, Rule-ID|SV-281324r1167122_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-10-701220, Vuln-ID|V-281324

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 77195e1501a772537cdbbbb198681b7d28941f27d68d911503d00e707bd374db