The operating system must enforce a Discretionary Access Control (DAC) policy that includes or excludes access to the granularity of a single user.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000253-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000253-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000253-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Access control policies (e.g., identity-based policies, role-based policies, attribute-based policies) and access enforcement mechanisms (e.g., access control lists, access control matrices, cryptography) are employed by organizations to control access between users (or processes acting on behalf of users) and objects (e.g., devices, files, records, processes, programs, domains) in the operating system. This requirement mandates the granularity of the access is at the user level. Permanent not a finding - Root is the only user local to the host. All other roles/accounts required to be AD accounts. The Administrator (root in this case) is capable of passing (discretionary) permissions (directly and indirectly) on to any other user via (for instance) roles.

Description

Access control policies (e.g., identity-based policies, role-based policies, attribute-based policies) and access enforcement mechanisms (e.g., access control lists, access control matrices, cryptography) are employed by organizations to control access between users (or processes acting on behalf of users) and objects (e.g., devices, files, records, processes, programs, domains) in the operating system. This requirement mandates the granularity of the access is at the user level. Permanent not a finding - Root is the only user local to the host. All other roles/accounts required to be AD accounts. The Administrator (root in this case) is capable of passing (discretionary) permissions (directly and indirectly) on to any other user via (for instance) roles.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000253-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-000253-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.