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

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-25200	OSX00015 M6	SV-37153r1_rule	IAIA-1 IAIA-2	Medium

Description
The administrator account has unlimited privileges to the system. Creating a complex name improves the protection of this account and the system. Do not use administrator; do not use the name of the machine, etc.

STIG	Date
MAC OSX 10.6 Workstation Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-04-09

Details

Check Text ( C-35869r1_chk )
1. Select Finder. 2. Select Applications. 3. Select System Preferences. 4. Select Accounts. 5. Verify there are no easy to guess administrator account names. If any accounts have easy to guess names, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-31124r1_fix)
1. Select Finder. 2. Select Applications. 3. Select System Preferences. 4. Select Accounts. 5. Rename or recreate accounts with difficult-to-guess names.