If Network Security Services (NSS) is being used by the SUSE operating system it must prohibit the use of cached authentications after one day.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>If cached authentication information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-234857r958828_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Configure NSS, if used by the SUSE operating system, to prohibit the use of cached authentications after one day.
Add or change the following line in "/etc/sssd/sssd.conf" just below the line "[nss]":
memcache_timeout = 86400