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V-281167

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 10 must require a unique superusers name upon booting into single-user and maintenance modes.

Rule ID

SV-281167r1166453_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000213

Discussion

Having a nondefault grub superuser username makes password-guessing attacks less effective.

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Verify RHEL 10 requires a unique superusers name upon booting into single-user and maintenance modes.

Verify that the boot loader superuser account has been set with the following command:

$ sudo grep -A1 "superusers" /etc/grub2.cfg
set superusers="<accountname>"
export superusers
password_pbkdf2 <accountname> ${GRUB2_PASSWORD}

Verify <accountname> is not a common name such as root, admin, or administrator.

If superusers contains easily guessable usernames, this is a finding.

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Configure RHEL 10 to have a unique username for the grub superuser account.

Edit the "/etc/grub.d/01_users" file and add or modify the following lines with a nondefault username for the superuser account:

set superusers="<accountname>"
export superusers

Once the superuser account has been added, update the "grub.cfg" file by regenerating the GRUB configuration with the following command:

$ sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg --update-bls-cmdline

Reboot the system:

$ sudo reboot