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# Minimize Admission Of Root Containers

### More Info:

Do not generally permit containers to be run as the root user.

### Risk Level

Critical

### Address

Security

### Compliance Standards

* CIS Kubernetes

### Triage and Remediation

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

    <AccordionGroup>
      <Accordion title="Using Console" defaultOpen="true">
        List the policies in use for each namespace in the cluster, ensure that each policyrestricts the use of root containers by setting MustRunAsNonRoot or MustRunAs with therange of UIDs not including 0.
      </Accordion>
    </AccordionGroup>
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

### Additional Reading:

* [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/security/pod-security-standards/](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/security/pod-security-standards/)