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V-258873

CAT II (Medium)

The Photon operating system must disable the debug-shell service.

Rule ID

SV-258873r933680_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

The debug-shell service is intended to diagnose systemd related boot issues with various systemctl commands. Once enabled and following a system reboot, the root shell will be available on tty9. This service must remain disabled until and unless otherwise directed by VMware support.

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command to verify the debug-shell service is disabled:

# systemctl status debug-shell.service

If the debug-shell service is not stopped and disabled, this is a finding.

Fix Text

At the command line, run the following commands:

# systemctl stop debug-shell.service
# systemctl disable debug-shell.service