The Department of Defense (DoD) login banner must be displayed immediately prior to, or as part of, graphical desktop environment login prompts.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
GEN000402-ESXI5-PNF	GEN000402-ESXI5-PNF	GEN000402-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Failure to display the login banner prior to a logon attempt will negate legal proceedings resulting from unauthorized access to system resources. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - The hypervisor does not support this function.

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-GEN000402-ESXI5-PNF_chk )
ESXi supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-GEN000402-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.