Title

The IBM z/OS user account for the UNIX (RMFGAT) 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

RMFGAT is the userid for the Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) Monitor III Gatherer. If RMFGAT is not define this is not applicable. From a command input screen enter: TSS LIST (RMFGAT) DATA ALL If RMFGAT is defined as follows, this is not a finding: -Default group specified as OMVSGRP or STCOMVS -A unique, non-zero UID -HOME directory specified as "/" -Shell program specified as "/bin/sh"

Fix Text

Define RMFGAT user account is defined as specified below: -Default group specified as OMVSGRP or STCOMVS -A unique, non-zero UID -HOME directory specified as "/" -Shell program specified as "/bin/sh"

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-224095r877933_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-224095

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

Expert Comments

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