Give the BIND User Account an Invalid Shell

Details

The BIND user account, named by default, must not be used as a regular login account, and should be assigned an invalid or nologin shell to ensure that the account cannot be used to login.

Rationale:

Service accounts such as the named account represent a risk if they can be used to get a login shell to the system.

Solution

Change the named account to use the nologin shell as shown:

# chsh -s /sbin/nologin named

Default Value:

/sbin/nologin

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Access Control.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

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Updated on July 16, 2022
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