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V-256561

CAT II (Medium)

The Photon operating system must be configured so that all global initialization scripts are protected from unauthorized modification.

Rule ID

SV-256561r991589_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R4

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

Local initialization files are used to configure the user's shell environment upon login. Malicious modification of these files could compromise accounts upon login.

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command:

# find /etc/bash.bashrc /etc/profile /etc/profile.d/ -xdev -type f -a '(' -perm -002 -o -not -user root -o -not -group root ')' -exec ls -ld {} \;

If any files are returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text

At the command line, run the following commands for each returned file:

# chmod o-w <file>
# chown root:root <file>