Create Separate Partition for /var
Details The /var directory is used by daemons and other system services to temporarily store dynamic data. Some directories created...
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Create Separate Partition for /var/log
Details The /var/log directory is used by system services to store log data . *Rationale* There are two important reasons...Create Separate Partition for /var/log/audit
Details The auditing daemon, auditd, stores log data in the /var/log/audit directory. *Rationale* There are two important reasons to ensure...Disable Automounting
Details autofs allows automatic mounting of devices, typically including CD/DVDs and USB drives. *Rationale* With automounting enabled anyone with physical...Disable Prelink
Details The prelinking feature changes binaries in an attempt to decrease their startup time. *Rationale* The prelinking feature can interfere...Enable Randomized Virtual Memory Region Placement
Details Set the system flag to force randomized virtual memory region placement. *Rationale* Randomly placing virtual memory regions will make...Enable XD/NX Support on 32-bit x86 Systems
Details 32 bit OS not installed. Check was not performed. Recent processors in the x86 family support the ability to...Ensure Avahi Server is not enabled
Details Avahi is a free zeroconf implementation, including a system for multicast DNS/DNS-SD service discovery. Avahi allows programs to publish...Ensure chargen is not enabled
Details chargen is a network service that responds with 0 to 512 ASCII characters for each connection it receives. This...Ensure daytime is not enabled
Details daytime is a network service that responds with the server’s current date and time. This service is intended for...