STIGUI
V-256558CAT II — Medium severitySV-256558r1268251_rule

The Photon operating system must be configured so the x86 Ctrl-Alt-Delete key sequence is disabled on the command line.

Rule version PHTN-30-000089 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-31

Discussion

When the Ctrl-Alt-Del target is enabled, a locally logged-on user who presses Ctrl-Alt-Delete, when at the console, can reboot the system. If accidentally pressed, as could happen in the case of a mixed operating system environment, this can create the risk of short-term loss of systems availability due to unintentional reboot.

Check

At the command line, run the following command:

# systemctl status ctrl-alt-del.target

Expected result:

ctrl-alt-del.target Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit ctrl-alt-del.target is masked.) Active: inactive (dead)

If the "ctrl-alt-del.target" is not "inactive" and "masked", this is a finding.

Fix

At the command line, run the following command:

# systemctl mask ctrl-alt-del.target

Identifiers

Group ID
V-256558
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-256558r1268251_rule
Check ID
C-60233r942494_chk
Fix ID
F-60176r887347_fix