Details

The root account needs to be disabled in order to meet many, if not all, of the GRC standards. You will need to create a new administrative account prior to disabling root. Other functions that use this account such as NDMP and ndmpcopy might be affected. It will be necessary to use a different account for these functions.

Solution

Disable the root account

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3649.pdf

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 NetApp.

References

• 800-53|AC-2.

Source

• Tenable.com/audits