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V-217274

CAT II (Medium)

The SUSE operating system SSH daemon must be configured to not allow authentication using known hosts authentication.

Rule ID

SV-217274r991589_rule

STIG

SLES 12 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

V-77461

Discussion

Configuring this setting for the SSH daemon provides additional assurance that remote logon via SSH will require a password, even in the event of misconfiguration elsewhere.

Check Content

Verify the SUSE operating system SSH daemon is configured to not allow authentication using known hosts authentication.

To determine how the SSH daemon's "IgnoreUserKnownHosts" option is set, run the following command:

# sudo grep -i IgnoreUserKnownHosts /etc/ssh/sshd_config

IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes

If the value is returned as "no", the returned line is commented out, or no output is returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the SUSE operating system SSH daemon to not allow authentication using known hosts authentication.

Add the following line in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config", or uncomment the line and set the value to "yes":

IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes