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V-271736CAT II — Medium severitySV-271736r1091920_rule

OL 9 must disable the ability of systemd to spawn an interactive boot process.

Rule version OL09-00-002392 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

Using interactive or recovery boot, the console user could disable auditing, firewalls, or other services, weakening system security.

Check

Verify that OL 9 GRUB 2 is configured to disable interactive boot.

Check that the current GRUB 2 configuration disables the ability of systemd to spawn an interactive boot process with the following command:

$ sudo grubby --info=ALL | grep args | grep 'systemd.confirm_spawn'

If any output is returned, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure OL 9 to allocate sufficient audit_backlog_limit to disable the ability of systemd to spawn an interactive boot process with the following command:

$ sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --remove-args="systemd.confirm_spawn"

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271736
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-271736r1091920_rule
Check ID
C-75786r1091918_chk
Fix ID
F-75693r1091919_fix