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Bug 2157877 - Definition of interactive an non interactive users
Summary: Definition of interactive an non interactive users
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: scap-security-guide
Version: 8.6
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Marcus Burghardt
QA Contact: Milan Lysonek
Jan Fiala
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 2228433 2228434
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-01-03 11:38 UTC by Paulo Andrade
Modified: 2023-11-14 17:08 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: scap-security-guide-0.1.69-1.el8
Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
.Better definition of interactive users The rules in the `scap-security-guide` package were improved to provide more consistent interactive user configuration. Previously, some rules used different approaches for identifying interactive and non-interactive users. With this update, we have unified the definitions of interactive users. User accounts with UID greater than or equal to 1000 are now considered interactive, with the exception of the `nobody` and `nfsnobody` accounts and with the exception of accounts that use `/sbin/nologin` as the login shell. This change affects the following rules: * `accounts_umask_interactive_users` * `accounts_user_dot_user_ownership` * `accounts_user_dot_group_ownership` * `accounts_user_dot_no_world_writable_programs` * `accounts_user_interactive_home_directory_defined` * `accounts_user_interactive_home_directory_exists` * `accounts_users_home_files_groupownership` * `accounts_users_home_files_ownership` * `accounts_users_home_files_permissions` * `file_groupownership_home_directories` * `file_ownership_home_directories` * `file_permissions_home_directories` * `file_permissions_home_dirs` * `no_forward_files`
Clone Of:
: 2228433 2228434 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2023-11-14 15:36:38 UTC
Type: Bug
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-143535 0 None None None 2023-01-03 11:40:53 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2023:7056 0 None None None 2023-11-14 15:37:31 UTC

Description Paulo Andrade 2023-01-03 11:38:45 UTC 
From my understanding, xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_accounts_user_interactive_home_directory_defined
understands an interactive user as one with "uid >= 1000 and uid != 65534".

Can you please clarify it? (possibly almost providing the response
to the query, this is also probably related to pam_succeed_if and/or
possibly pam_loginuid).

Also, the reason of this query is that an user would want it to
also check for users with something /sbin/nologin as login shell
(or anything not in /etc/shells) as a non interactive user. But
I see this is not a good idea.
Comment 5 Marcus Burghardt 2023-02-28 13:32:06 UTC 
Patch is already merged in Upstream: https://github.com/ComplianceAsCode/content/pull/10215
Comment 28 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-14 15:36:38 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (scap-security-guide bug fix update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:7056
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