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5.3.1.1 Ensure latest version of pam is installed

Information

The pam package provides the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) framework and the core modules used by the system's authentication, login, and password-change services.

To ensure the system has access to the PAM module functionality used by this Benchmark, the installed version of pam should be 1.5.1-14 or later.

Solution

Run the following command to install or update pam to the latest version:

# dnf install pam

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/27893

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

References: 800-53|SI-2

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 6ec4e71d3adf8c791eed54174fdb982c93ad4c57d867e35163b6b8e8ec98e5d2