The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must display the date and time of the last successful account logon upon an SSH logon.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Providing users with feedback on when account accesses via SSH last occurred facilitates user recognition and reporting of unauthorized account use.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-204591r858477_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Configure SSH to provide users with feedback on when account accesses last occurred by setting the required configuration options in "/etc/pam.d/sshd" or in the "sshd_config" file used by the system ("/etc/ssh/sshd_config" will be used in the example) (this file may be named differently or be in a different location if using a version of SSH that is provided by a third-party vendor).
Modify the "PrintLastLog" line in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" to match the following:
PrintLastLog yes