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V-259506

CAT II (Medium)

The macOS system must disable the TouchID System Settings pane.

Rule ID

SV-259506r958478_rule

STIG

Apple macOS 14 (Sonoma) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R3

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The System Settings pane for TouchID must be disabled. Disabling the System Settings pane prevents the users from configuring TouchID.

Check Content

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable the TouchID System Settings pane with the following command:

/usr/bin/profiles show -output stdout-xml | /usr/bin/xmllint --xpath '//key[text()="DisabledSystemSettings"]/following-sibling::*[1]' - | /usr/bin/grep -c "com.apple.Touch-ID-Settings.extension"

If the result is not "1", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the macOS system to disable the TouchID System Settings pane by installing the "com.apple.systempreferences" configuration profile.