If Network Security Services (NSS) is being used by SLEM 5 it must prohibit the use of cached authentications after one day.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
If cached authentication information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable.
- ID
- SV-261399r996617_rule
- Version
- SLEM-05-631010
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Configure NSS, if used by SLEM 5, to prohibit the use of cached authentications after one day.
Add or modify the following line in the "/etc/sssd/sssd.conf" file, below the line "[nss]":
memcache_timeout = 86400