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SLEM 5 must configure the Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to prohibit the use of cached offline 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If cached authentication information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable.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-261400r996619_rule
Version
SLEM-05-631015
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure SLEM 5 PAM 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 "[pam]":

offline_credentials_expiration = 1