The .rhosts file must not be supported in PAM.

From SOLARIS 10 X86 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Associated with IA controls: ECCD-2, ECCD-1

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-40334r1_rule The .rhosts file must not be supported in PAM.

Vulnerability discussion

The .rhosts files are used to specify a list of hosts that are permitted remote access to a particular account without authenticating. The use of such a mechanism defeats strong identification and authentication requirements.

Check content

Check the PAM configuration for rhosts_auth. Procedure: # grep rhosts_auth /etc/pam.conf If a rhosts_auth entry is found that is not commented out, this is a finding.

Fix text

Edit /etc/pam.conf and remove the reference(s) to the rhosts_auth module.

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