Administrator accounts must be created with difficult-to-guess names.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-51257	OSX8-00-01035	SV-65467r1_rule		Medium

Description
Administrator accounts must be created with difficult-to-guess names.

STIG	Date
Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG	2015-02-10

Details

Check Text ( C-53605r1_chk )
To list all of the administrator accounts on the system, run the following command: sudo dscl . -read /Groups/admin GroupMembership If any of the resulting accounts contain easy-to-guess names, this is a finding. An example of an easy to guess name would contain "admin" or "administrator".

Fix Text (F-56057r1_fix)
Rename any accounts on the system that contain easy to guess names.