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V-4089

CAT II (Medium)

All system start-up files must be owned by root.

Rule ID

SV-45073r1_rule

STIG

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v11 for System z Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R12

CCIs

CCI-000225

Discussion

System start-up files not owned by root could lead to system compromise by allowing malicious users or applications to modify them for unauthorized purposes. This could lead to system and network compromise.

Check Content

Check run control scripts' ownership.
# ls -lL /etc/rc* /etc/init.d

Alternatively:
# find /etc -name "[SK][0-9]*"|xargs stat -L -c %U:%n

If any run control script is not owned by root or bin, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Change the ownership of the run control script(s) with incorrect ownership.
# find /etc -name "[SK][0-9]*"|xargs stat -L -c %U:%n|egrep -v "^root:"|cut -d: -f2|xargs chown root