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The operating system must provide automated mechanisms for supporting account management functions.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-56571 SRG-OS-000001-GPOS-00001 SV-70831r1_rule Medium
Description
Enterprise environments make account management challenging and complex. A manual process for account management functions adds the risk of a potential oversight or other errors. A comprehensive account management process that includes automation helps to ensure accounts designated as requiring attention are consistently and promptly addressed. Examples include, but are not limited to, using automation to take action on multiple accounts designated as inactive, suspended or terminated, or by disabling accounts located in non-centralized account stores such as multiple servers. This requirement applies to all account types, including individual/user, shared, group, system, guest/anonymous, emergency, developer/manufacturer/vendor, temporary, and service. The automated mechanisms may reside within the operating system itself or may be offered by other infrastructure providing automated account management capabilities. Automated mechanisms may be composed of differing technologies that, when placed together, contain an overall automated mechanism supporting an organization's automated account management requirements. Account management functions include: assigning group or role membership; identifying account type; specifying user access authorizations (i.e., privileges); account removal, update, or termination; and administrative alerts. The use of automated mechanisms can include, for example: using email or text messaging to automatically notify account managers when users are terminated or transferred; using the information system to monitor account usage; and using automated telephonic notification to report atypical system account usage.
STIG Date
General Purpose Operating System SRG 2019-07-01

Details

Check Text ( C-57131r1_chk )
Verify the operating system provides automated mechanisms for supporting account management functions. If it does not, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-61459r1_fix)
Configure the operating system to provide automated mechanisms for supporting account management functions.