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V-268437CAT II — Medium severitySV-268437r1034251_rule

The macOS system must set login grace time to 30.

Rule version APPL-15-000053 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

If SSHD is enabled, it must be configured to wait only 30 seconds before timing out login attempts.

NOTE: /etc/ssh/sshd_config will be automatically modified to its original state following any update or major upgrade to the operating system.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to set Login Grace Time to 30 with the following command:

/usr/sbin/sshd -G | /usr/bin/awk '/logingracetime/{print $2}'

If the result is not "30", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to set Login Grace Time to 30 with the following command:

include_dir=$(/usr/bin/awk '/^Include/ {print $2}' /etc/ssh/sshd_config | /usr/bin/tr -d '*')

if [[ -z $include_dir ]]; then /usr/bin/sed -i.bk "1s/.*/Include \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config.d\/\*/" /etc/ssh/sshd_config fi

/usr/bin/grep -qxF 'logingracetime 30' "${include_dir}01-mscp-sshd.conf" 2>/dev/null || echo "logingracetime 30" >> "${include_dir}01-mscp-sshd.conf"

for file in $(ls ${include_dir}); do if [[ "$file" == "100-macos.conf" ]]; then continue fi if [[ "$file" == "01-mscp-sshd.conf" ]]; then break fi /bin/mv ${include_dir}${file} ${include_dir}20-${file} done

Identifiers

Group ID
V-268437
Group title
SRG-OS-000163-GPOS-00072
Rule ID
SV-268437r1034251_rule
Check ID
C-72467r1034249_chk
Fix ID
F-72368r1034250_fix