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macOS APPL-26-002066

DISA STIG APPL-26-002066 (CAT I): The macOS system must disable unattended or automatic login to the system.

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APPL-26-002066 CAT I

The macOS system must disable unattended or automatic login to the system.

NIST SP 800-53: CM-6, IA-2, IA-5(13)

mSCP rule system_settings_automatic_login_disable · in 800-171, 800-53r5_high, 800-53r5_low, 800-53r5_moderate, DISA-STIG, all_rules, cis_lvl1, cis_lvl2…

Configuration profile

com.apple.loginwindow
  com.apple.login.mcx.DisableAutoLoginClient = true
Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable unattended or automatic login to the system with the following command: /usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS $.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.loginwindow')\ .objectForKey('com.apple.login.mcx.DisableAutoLoginClient').js EOS If the result is not "true", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable unattended or automatic login to the system by installing the "com.apple.loginwindow" configuration profile.

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