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The system must not have special privilege accounts, such as shutdown and halt.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-4268 GEN000000-LNX00320 SV-37181r1_rule IAAC-1 High
Description
If special privilege accounts are compromised, the accounts could provide privileges to execute malicious commands on a system.
STIG Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2016-06-01

Details

Check Text ( C-35884r1_chk )
Perform the following to check for unnecessary privileged accounts:

# grep "^shutdown" /etc/passwd
# grep "^halt" /etc/passwd
# grep "^reboot" /etc/passwd

If any unnecessary privileged accounts exist this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-31139r1_fix)
Remove any special privilege accounts, such as shutdown and halt, from the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files using the "userdel" or "system-config-users" commands.