AIX system must require authentication upon booting into single-user and maintenance modes.
Overview
| Finding ID | Version | Rule ID | IA Controls | Severity |
| V-215308 | AIX7-00-002127 | SV-215308r991589_rule | CCI-000366 | medium |
| Description | ||||
| This prevents attackers with physical access from trivially bypassing security on the machine and gaining root access. Such accesses are further prevented by configuring the bootloader password. | ||||
| STIG | Date | |||
| IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide | 2024-08-16 | |||
Details
Check Text (C-215308r991589_chk)
Verify that the "root" account has a password assigned:
# cut -d: -f1,2 /etc/passwd | grep root
root:!
If the "root" account is not listed with an "!", this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-16504r294376_fix)
Assign the "root" account a password using passwd command while logged on as "root":
# passwd