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V-271466CAT II — Medium severitySV-271466r1091110_rule

OL 9 must not have the sendmail package installed.

Rule version OL09-00-000150 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

The sendmail software was not developed with security in mind, and its design prevents it from being effectively contained by SELinux. Postfix must be used instead.

Check

Verify that OL 9 does not have the sendmail package installed with the following command:

$ dnf list --installed sendmail Error: No matching Packages to list

If the "sendmail" package is installed, this is a finding.

Fix

Remove the sendmail package with the following command:

$ sudo dnf remove sendmail

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271466
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-271466r1091110_rule
Check ID
C-75516r1091108_chk
Fix ID
F-75423r1091109_fix