Host-based authentication for login-based services must be disabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-216357	SOL-11.1-040390	SV-216357r959010_rule		Medium

Description
The use of .rhosts authentication is an insecure protocol and can be replaced with public-key authentication using Secure Shell. As automatic authentication settings in the .rhosts files can provide a malicious user with sensitive system credentials, the use of .rhosts files should be disabled.

STIG	Date
Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-05-30

Details

Check Text ( C-17593r371159_chk )
Note: This is the location for Solaris 11.1. For earlier versions, the information is in /etc/pam.conf. Determine if host-based authentication services are enabled. # grep 'pam_rhosts_auth.so.1' /etc/pam.conf /etc/pam.d/*\| grep -vc '^#' If the returned result is not 0 (zero), this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-17591r371160_fix)
Note: This is the location for Solaris 11.1. For earlier versions, the information is in /etc/pam.conf. The root role is required. # ls -l /etc/pam.d to identify the various configuration files used by PAM. Search each file for the pam_rhosts_auth.so.1 entry. # grep pam_rhosts_auth.so.1 [filename] Identify the file with the line pam_hosts_auth.so.1 in it. # pfedit [filename] Insert a comment character (#) at the beginning of the line containing "pam_hosts_auth.so.1".

Fix Text (F-17591r371160_fix)

Note: This is the location for Solaris 11.1. For earlier versions, the information is in /etc/pam.conf.

The root role is required.

# ls -l /etc/pam.d
to identify the various configuration files used by PAM.

Search each file for the pam_rhosts_auth.so.1 entry.

# grep pam_rhosts_auth.so.1 [filename]

Identify the file with the line pam_hosts_auth.so.1 in it.

# pfedit [filename]

Insert a comment character (#) at the beginning of the line containing "pam_hosts_auth.so.1".