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V-258009

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 9 SSH daemon must display the date and time of the last successful account logon upon an SSH logon.

Rule ID

SV-258009r1045077_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R8

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

Providing users feedback on when account accesses last occurred facilitates user recognition and reporting of unauthorized account use.

Check Content

Verify the SSH daemon provides users with feedback on when account accesses last occurred with the following command:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/sshd -dd 2>&1 | awk '/filename/ {print $4}' | tr -d '\r' | tr '\n' ' ' | xargs sudo grep -iH '^\s*printlastlog'

PrintLastLog yes

If the "PrintLastLog" keyword is set to "no", the returned line is commented out, or no output is returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the SSH daemon to provide users with feedback on when account accesses last occurred.

Add the following line to "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" or to a file in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d", or uncomment the line and set the value to "yes":

PrintLastLog yes

The SSH service must be restarted for changes to take effect:

$ sudo systemctl restart sshd.service