STIGUI
V-256872CAT II — Medium severitySV-256872r1268226_rule

Access to the Hardware Management Console (HMC) must be restricted by assigning users proper roles and responsibilities.

Rule version HMC0045 · STIG v2 · 2026-08-31

Discussion

Access to the HMC if not properly controlled and restricted by assigning users proper roles and responsibilities, could allow modification to areas outside the need-to-know and abilities of the individual resulting in a bypass of security and an altering of the environment. This would result in a loss of secure operations and can cause an impact to data operating environment integrity.

Check

Have the System Administrator verify to the reviewer that the Roles and Responsibilities assigned are assigned to the proper individuals by their areas of responsibility.

Note: Sites must have a list of valid HMC users, indicating their USERID, Date of DD2875, and roles and responsibilities.

Have the System Administrator verify to the reviewer that the Roles and Responsibilities assigned are assigned to the proper individuals by their areas of responsibility.

To display user roles chose User Profiles and then select the user for modification. View Task Roles and Manager Resources Roles.

If the HMC user-IDs displayed by the System Administrator are not properly assigned by Roles and Responsibilities, then this is a FINDING.

Fix

Have the System Administrator using the list user IDs and responsibilities, validate that each user is properly specified in the HMC based on his/her roles and responsibilities.

Note: Sites must have a list of valid HMC users, indicating their USERID, Date of DD2785, roles and responsibilities

To display user roles choose User Profiles and then select the user for modification. View Task Roles and Manager Roles.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-256872
Group title
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
Rule ID
SV-256872r1268226_rule
Check ID
C-60547r890960_chk
Fix ID
F-60490r890961_fix