The RHEL 8 SSH daemon must not allow Kerberos authentication, except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-230291	RHEL-08-010521	SV-230291r952105_rule		Medium

Description
Configuring these settings for the SSH daemon provides additional assurance that remote logon via SSH will not use unused methods of authentication, even in the event of misconfiguration elsewhere.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-02-19

Details

Check Text ( C-32960r952105_chk )
Verify the SSH daemon does not allow Kerberos authentication with the following command: $ sudo /usr/sbin/sshd -dd 2>&1 \| awk '/filename/ {print $4}' \| tr -d '\r' \| tr '\n' ' ' \| xargs sudo grep -iH '^\s*kerberosauthentication' KerberosAuthentication no If the value is returned as "yes", the returned line is commented out, no output is returned, or has not been documented with the information system security officer (ISSO), this is a finding. If conflicting results are returned, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-32960r952105_chk )

Verify the SSH daemon does not allow Kerberos authentication with the following command:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/sshd -dd 2>&1 | awk '/filename/ {print $4}' | tr -d '\r' | tr '\n' ' ' | xargs sudo grep -iH '^\s*kerberosauthentication'

KerberosAuthentication no

If the value is returned as "yes", the returned line is commented out, no output is returned, or has not been documented with the information system security officer (ISSO), this is a finding.

If conflicting results are returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-32935r743956_fix)
Configure the SSH daemon to not allow Kerberos authentication. Add the following line in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config", or uncomment the line and set the value to "no": KerberosAuthentication no The SSH daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect. To restart the SSH daemon, run the following command: $ sudo systemctl restart sshd.service