I just found the relevant code and have no worries.

Thanks for the response!

Trevor


On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 11:25 PM, <fcaviggi@redhat.com> wrote:
Trevor,

The hard and '-' (which sets both hard and soft) are the primary controls, 'soft' is overruled by the 'hard' setting.

That's why those are the most important to check.

Regards,

Frank




On 10/05/2013 09:35 PM, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
Sorry for the double post. I just wanted to make sure that the presence of the 'soft' line didn't throw an error.


On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Trevor Vaughan <tvaughan@onyxpoint.com> wrote:
As a note, both:

*  -  core  0

AND

*  hard  core 0
*  soft   core 0

Should pass.

Trevor


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:28 AM, <fcaviggi@redhat.com> wrote:
All,

Most of the guidance for RHEL security has suggested setting the following in /etc/security/limits.conf:

        *    hard    core    0

I have generally set this to:

        *    -    core    0

Because this sets both the hard and soft limits on the system. Most SCAP scanners are looking for very specific values there.  I'm looking at modifying the checks to pass either 'hard' or '-' for the value.

I'd also to fix the maxlogins in the rule (max_concurrent_login_sessions) in /etc/security/limits.conf to look for the DOD default (10) and lower to satisfy the check. Security standards are there as a baseline, why 'fail' the setting for exceeding the baseline value?

Regards,

Frank Caviggia

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