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V-216307

CAT II (Medium)

System start-up files must only execute programs owned by a privileged UID or an application.

Rule ID

SV-216307r959010_rule

STIG

Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R5

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

System start-up files executing programs owned by other than root (or another privileged user) or an application indicates the system may have been compromised.

Check Content

Determine the programs executed by system start-up files.  Determine the ownership of the executed programs. 

# cat /etc/rc* /etc/init.d/* | more

Check the ownership of every program executed by the system start-up files.

# ls -l <executed program>

If any executed program is not owned by root, sys, bin, or in rare cases, an application account, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Change the ownership of the file executed from system startup scripts to root, bin, or sys.

# chown root <executed file>