STIGUI
V-277033CAT II — Medium severitySV-277033r1149397_rule

The macOS system must prevent AdminHostInfo from being available at LoginWindow.

Rule version APPL-26-000009 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

The system must be configured to not display sensitive information at the LoginWindow. If the key "AdminHostInfo" is configured with a string value, it will allow the HostName, IP Address, and operating system version and build to be displayed when clicking on the clock area of the login window. Configuring this key to be an integer value, since it expects a string value, will effectively disable the behavior.

Note: This configuration requires it to be deployed via Managed Preferences rather than directly to com.apple.loginwindow.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to prevent AdminHostInfo from being available at LoginWindow with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS $.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.loginwindow')\ .integerForKey('AdminHostInfo') EOS

If the result is not "-1", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to prevent AdminHostInfo from being available at LoginWindow by installing the "com.apple.ManagedClient.preferences" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-277033
Group title
SRG-OS-000031-GPOS-00012
Rule ID
SV-277033r1149397_rule
Check ID
C-81188r1149339_chk
Fix ID
F-81093r1149340_fix