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PHTN-30-000115 - The Photon operating system must configure sshd to disallow HostbasedAuthentication.
Information
Secure Shell (SSH) trust relationships enable trivial lateral spread after a host compromise and therefore must be explicitly disabled.Solution
Navigate to and open:/etc/ssh/sshd_config
Ensure the 'HostbasedAuthentication' line is uncommented and set to the following:
HostbasedAuthentication no
At the command line, run the following command:
# systemctl restart sshd.service
See Also
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_7-0_Y25M01_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA STIG VMware vSphere 7.0 Photon OS v1r4
Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-256584r991591_rule, STIG-ID|PHTN-30-000115, Vuln-ID|V-256584
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: e1c71c1aec4b85390089d4061b841a83053b1784c00c4116d34ff0459dc364da