The FTPS/FTP service on the system must be configured with the Department of Defense (DoD) login banner.

From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000048

SV-50400r2_rule The FTPS/FTP service on the system must be configured with the Department of Defense (DoD) login banner.

Vulnerability discussion

This setting will cause the system greeting banner to be used for FTP connections as well.

Check content

To verify this configuration, run the following command: grep "banner_file" /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf The output should show the value of "banner_file" is set to "/etc/issue", an example of which is shown below. # grep "banner_file" /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf banner_file=/etc/issue If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix text

Edit the vsftpd configuration file, which resides at "/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf" by default. Add or correct the following configuration options. banner_file=/etc/issue Restart the vsftpd daemon. # service vsftpd restart

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