GEN000020 - The system must require authentication upon booting into single-user and maintenance modes.

Information

If the system does not require valid root authentication before it boots into single-user or maintenance mode, anyone who invokes single-user or maintenance mode is granted privileged access to all files on the system.

Solution

Edit /etc/inittab and set sulogin to run in single-user mode.
Example line in /etc/inittab:
~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin

Note: The first field in the /etc/inittab line may be any sequence of 1-4 characters.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Oracle_Linux_5_V2R1_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-3, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000213, Rule-ID|SV-218187r603259_rule, STIG-ID|GEN000020, STIG-Legacy|SV-63087, STIG-Legacy|V-756, Vuln-ID|V-218187

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: e878c710ec80da33a82a8de076368f105cb42d4cee8e3f7baf150fada56a85d0