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-4268r2_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
VMware ESX 3 Server	2016-05-13

Details

Check Text ( C-2089r2_chk )
Perform the following to check for unnecessary privileged accounts: # more /etc/passwd Some examples of unnecessary privileged accounts include halt, shutdown, reboot and who.

Fix Text (F-4179r2_fix)
Remove any special privilege accounts, such as shutdown and halt, from the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files.