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The Ubuntu operating system must display the date and time of the last successful account logon upon logon.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

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ID
SV-238373r858539_rule
Severity
Low
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Configure the Ubuntu operating system to provide users with feedback on when account accesses last occurred by setting the required configuration options in "/etc/pam.d/login".  
 
Add the following line to the top of "/etc/pam.d/login": 
 
session     required      pam_lastlog.so showfailed