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# Ensure Admin Configuration File Permissions Are 600

### More Info:

Ensure that the admin.conf file has permissions of 600.

### Risk Level

High

### Address

Security

### Compliance Standards

* CIS Kubernetes

### Triage and Remediation

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Remediation">
    ### Remediation

    <AccordionGroup>
      <Accordion title="Using Console" defaultOpen="true">
        Run the following command (based on the file location on your system) on the ControlPlane node. For example, stat -c %a /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf Verify that the permissions are 600 or more restrictive.
      </Accordion>
    </AccordionGroup>
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

### Additional Reading:

* [https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-kubeadm/](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-kubeadm/)