What Service Accounts are Created by the EDR Server Install?

Products

• Carbon Black EDR (formerly Cb Response)

Issue/Introduction

What service accounts are created by EDR during the install?

Environment

• EDR: All Supported Versions
• RHEL/CentOS: All Supported Versions

Resolution

• The created cb, rabbitmq and redis users are no login accounts with no password and no shell
• RabbitMQ has an encrypted password for logging into the messaging bus
• Postgres also has an encrypted password for logging into the database
• Only root and cb has access to the cb.conf file