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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

Providing users with feedback on when account accesses via SSH last occurred facilitates user recognition and reporting of unauthorized account use.

ID
SV-204591r858477_rule
Version
RHEL-07-040360
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A 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

The SSH service must be restarted for changes to "sshd_config" to take effect.