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V-258865

CAT II (Medium)

The Photon operating system must configure the Secure Shell (SSH) SyslogFacility.

Rule ID

SV-258865r933656_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000067

Discussion

Automated monitoring of remote access sessions allows organizations to detect cyberattacks and ensure ongoing compliance with remote access policies by auditing connection activities. Shipping sshd authentication events to syslog allows organizations to use their log aggregators to correlate forensic activities among multiple systems.

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command to verify the running configuration of sshd:

# sshd -T|&grep -i SyslogFacility

Example result:

syslogfacility AUTHPRIV

If "syslogfacility" is not set to "AUTH" or "AUTHPRIV", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Navigate to and open:

/etc/ssh/sshd_config

Ensure the "SyslogFacility" line is uncommented and set to the following:

SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV

At the command line, run the following command:

# systemctl restart sshd.service