RHEL 9 must disable the ability of systemd to spawn an interactive boot process.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
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| medium | V-257788 | SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227 | RHEL-09-212015 | SV-257788r1044838_rule | 2025-02-27 | 2 |
| Description |
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| Using interactive or recovery boot, the console user could disable auditing, firewalls, or other services, weakening system security. |
| ℹ️ Check |
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| Verify that 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 |
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| Configure the current GRUB 2 configuration 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" |