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SOL-11.1-040390 - Host-based authentication for login-based services must be disabled.
Information
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://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_SOL_11_SPARC_V3R6_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA Solaris 11 SPARC STIG v3r6
Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-216357r959010_rule, STIG-ID|SOL-11.1-040390, STIG-Legacy|SV-60985, STIG-Legacy|V-48113, Vuln-ID|V-216357
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: 4ea11a1d5eecf8ca554a15ec9d7699486bd3e44d6883fcab89faff724f108b68