| When dealing with access restrictions pertaining to change control, it should be noted that any changes to the hardware, software, and/or firmware components of the information system can potentially have significant effects on the overall security of the system. Accordingly, only qualified and authorized individuals should be allowed to obtain access to operating system for the purpose of initiating changes, including upgrades and modifications. Permanent not a finding - VMware's ESXi-v5 is a multi-user kernel where all users are "administrator" with either Administrator with: Full and partial (configurable) privileges, Read-only, or No Access. In this case, the file owner, group-owner and mode(s) have no meaning. Admin-level user roles are used. |
