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AC-06(05) Privileged Accounts

Control statement

Restrict privileged accounts on the system to [Assignment: personnel or roles].

Guidance

Privileged accounts, including super user accounts, are typically described as system administrator for various types of commercial off-the-shelf operating systems. Restricting privileged accounts to specific personnel or roles prevents day-to-day users from accessing privileged information or privileged functions. Organizations may differentiate in the application of restricting privileged accounts between allowed privileges for local accounts and for domain accounts provided that they retain the ability to control system configurations for key parameters and as otherwise necessary to sufficiently mitigate risk.

Implementation

OpenBao SPIFFE JWT auth and policies (canary)

Privileged accounts: no root token survives self-init; operator access is the platform-admin JWT role, bound to one ServiceAccount SVID. Partial, manual: not checked live, and who may run the admin pod is governed by Kubernetes RBAC not assessed here.

Status: partial.

Evidence:

All controls. Source: OSCAL component definition reti-platform and NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 (public domain).