The system must not allow autologin capabilities from the GNOME desktop.

From Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-60993r1_rule The system must not allow autologin capabilities from the GNOME desktop.

Vulnerability discussion

As automatic logins are a known security risk for other than "kiosk" types of systems, GNOME automatic login should be disabled in pam.conf.

Check content

Determine if autologin is enabled for the GNOME desktop. # egrep "auth|account" /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin | grep -vc ^# If the command returns other than "0", this is a finding.

Fix text

The root role is required. Modify the /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin file. # pfedit /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin Locate the lines: auth required pam_unix_cred.so.1 auth sufficient pam_allow.so.1 account sufficient pam_allow.so.1 Change the lines to read: #auth required pam_unix_cred.so.1 #auth sufficient pam_allow.so.1 #account sufficient pam_allow.so.1

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