The operating system must employ automated mechanisms to enforce access restrictions.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000088-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000088-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000088-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
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 and/or application 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 information system components for the purposes of initiating changes, 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.

Description

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 and/or application 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 information system components for the purposes of initiating changes, 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.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000088-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-SRG-OS-000088-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.