The FTPS/FTP service on the system must be configured with the Department of Defense (DoD) login banner.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-218079	RHEL-06-000348	SV-218079r505923_rule		Medium

Description
This setting will cause the system greeting banner to be used for FTP connections as well.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2020-09-03

Details

Check Text ( C-19560r377252_chk )
Verify the "vsftpd" package is installed: # rpm -qa \| grep -i vsftpd vsftpd-3.0.2-22.e16.x86_64 If the "vsftpd" package is not installed, this is Not Applicable. To verify this configuration, run the following command: grep "banner_file" /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf The output should show the value of "banner_file" is set to "/etc/issue", an example of which is shown below. # grep "banner_file" /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf banner_file=/etc/issue If it does not, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-19560r377252_chk )

Verify the "vsftpd" package is installed:
# rpm -qa | grep -i vsftpd
vsftpd-3.0.2-22.e16.x86_64

If the "vsftpd" package is not installed, this is Not Applicable.

To verify this configuration, run the following command:

grep "banner_file" /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

The output should show the value of "banner_file" is set to "/etc/issue", an example of which is shown below.

# grep "banner_file" /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
banner_file=/etc/issue

If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-19558r377253_fix)
Edit the vsftpd configuration file, which resides at "/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf" by default. Add or correct the following configuration options. banner_file=/etc/issue Restart the vsftpd daemon. # service vsftpd restart