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1.60 SLES-15-010500

Information

The SUSE operating system must configure the Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to prohibit the use of cached offline authentications after one day.

GROUP ID: V-234858
RULE ID: SV-234858r958828

If cached authentication information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable.

Solution

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

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23779

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-5(13), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-002007, Rule-ID|SV-234858r958828_rule, STIG-ID|SLES-15-010500, Vuln-ID|V-234858

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: ea2cb4a5b6d2611c6a233e0bfa5b1cbae7e203bc4eb2e78adca128553a07ff99