The root account must be the only account having an UID of 0.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
GEN000880-ESXI5-PNF	GEN000880-ESXI5-PNF	GEN000880-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
If an account has an UID of 0, it has root authority. Multiple accounts with an UID of 0 afford more opportunity for potential intruders to guess a password for a privileged account. Permanent not a finding - All local accounts are root/administrator with varying levels of administrative privileges. PAM controls assignment.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-GEN000880-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-GEN000880-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.