Details
If special privilege accounts are compromised, the accounts could provide privileges to execute malicious commands on a system.
Solution
Remove any special privilege accounts, such as shutdown and halt, from the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files using the 'userdel' or 'system-config-users' commands.
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Access Control, Identification and Authentication.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.
References
- 800-53|AC-6
- 800-53|IA-2
- CAT|I
- CCI|CCI-000225
- CCI|CCI-000764
- Rule-ID|SV-218168r603259_rule
- STIG-ID|GEN000000-LNX00320
- STIG-Legacy|SV-62797
- STIG-Legacy|V-4268
- Vuln-ID|V-218168
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