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GEN000290 - The system must not have unnecessary accounts.

Information

Accounts providing no operational purpose provide additional opportunities for system compromise. Unnecessary accounts include user accounts for individuals not requiring access to the system and application accounts for applications not installed on the system.

Solution

Remove all unnecessary accounts, such as games, from the /etc/passwd file before connecting a system to the network. Other accounts, such as news and gopher, associated with a service not in use should also be removed.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_SOL_10_x86_V2R4_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-227568r603266_rule, STIG-ID|GEN000290, STIG-Legacy|SV-4269, STIG-Legacy|V-4269, Vuln-ID|V-227568

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: e07033526da247107bb27673e8203d441dcf480a17f6a4818acff3efcb753700