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The SUSE operating system 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If cached authentication information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable.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-234858r958828_rule
Version
SLES-15-010500
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the SUSE operating system PAM 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 "[pam]":

offline_credentials_expiration = 1