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V-22435

CAT II (Medium)

The hosts.lpd (or equivalent) file must be group-owned by root, bin, sys, or system.

Rule ID

SV-45814r1_rule

STIG

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

Version

V1R12

CCIs

CCI-000225

Discussion

Failure to give group-ownership of the hosts.lpd file to root, bin, sys, or system provides the members of the owning group and possible unauthorized users, with the potential to modify the hosts.lpd file. Unauthorized modifications could disrupt access to local printers from authorized remote hosts or permit unauthorized remote access to local printers.

Check Content

Check the group ownership of the /etc/hosts.lpd(or equivalent) file.

Procedure:
# ls -lL /etc/hosts.lpd

If the file is not group-owned by root, bin, sys, or system, this is a finding.
Check the group ownership of the /etc/cups/printers.conf file.


# ls -lL /etc/cups/printers.conf

If the file is not group-owned by lp, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Change the group-owner of the hosts.lpd file.

Procedure:
# chgrp root /etc/hosts.lpd
Change the group-owner of the printers.conf file.


# chgrp lp /etc/cups/printers.conf