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V-259564CAT II — Medium severitySV-259564r958478_rule

The macOS system must disable TouchID prompt during Setup Assistant.

Rule version APPL-14-005054 · STIG v2 · 2024-12-04

Discussion

The prompt for TouchID during Setup Assistant must be disabled.

macOS prompts new users through enabling TouchID during Setup Assistant; this is not essential, and therefore must be disabled to prevent against the risk of individuals electing to enable TouchID to override organizationwide settings.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable TouchID prompt during Setup Assistant with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS $.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.SetupAssistant.managed')\ .objectForKey('SkipTouchIDSetup').js EOS

If the result is not "true", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable TouchID prompt during Setup Assistant by installing the "com.apple.SetupAssistant.managed" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-259564
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-259564r958478_rule
Check ID
C-63303r941312_chk
Fix ID
F-63211r941313_fix