Title

IBM z/OS user account for the z/OS UNIX SUPERSUSER userid must be properly defined. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors). Organizational users (and processes acting on behalf of users) must be uniquely identified and authenticated to all accesses, except for the following: 1) Accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization. Organizations document specific user actions that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication; and 2) Accesses that occur through authorized use of group authenticators without individual authentication. Organizations may require unique identification of individuals in group accounts (e.g., shared privilege accounts) or for detailed accountability of individual activity.

Check Content

Refer to system PARMLIB member BPXPRMxx (xx is determined by OMVS entry in IEASYS00.) Determine the user ID identified by the SUPERUSER parameter. (BPXROOT is the default). From a command input screen enter: SET LID LIST LIKE (superuser userid) If the SUPERUSER userid is defined as follows, this is not a finding. - No access to interactive on-line facilities (e.g., TSO, CICS, etc.) - Default group specified as OMVSGRP or STCOMVS From an ACF command input screen enter: SET PROFILE(USER) DIVISION(OMVS) SET VERBOSE LIST <superuser userid> If the SUPERUSER userid is defined as follows, this is not a finding: - UID(0) - HOME directory specified as "/" - Shell program specified as "/bin/sh"

Fix Text

Define the user ID identified in the BPXPRM00 SUPERUSER parameter as specified below: No access to interactive on-line facilities (e.g., TSO, CICS, etc) Default group specified as OMVSGRP or STCOMVS UID(0) HOME directory specified as "/" Shell program specified as "/bin/sh"

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-223634r861192_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-223634

Group Title: SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051

Expert Comments

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