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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If cached authentication information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable.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