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Linux RHEL-10-600560

DISA STIG RHEL-10-600560 (CAT I): RHEL 10 must require users to provide a password for privilege escalation.

DISA STIG recommends

RHEL-10-600560 CAT I

RHEL 10 must require users to provide a password for privilege escalation.

NIST SP 800-53: IA-11

Check

Verify RHEL 10 has no occurrences of "NOPASSWD" in "/etc/sudoers" with the following command: $ sudo grep -ir nopasswd /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/ | grep -v '#' If any occurrences of "NOPASSWD" are returned from the command and have not been documented with the information system security officer as an organizationally defined administrative group using multifactor authentication, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure RHEL 10 to not allow users to execute privileged actions without authenticating with a password. Remove any occurrence of "NOPASSWD" found in the "/etc/sudoers" file or files in the "/etc/sudoers.d" directory: $ sudo find /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d -type f -exec sed -i '/NOPASSWD/ s/^/# /g' {} \;

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