STIGUI
V-215205CAT II — Medium severitySV-215205r958828_rule

If LDAP authentication is required, AIX must setup LDAP client to refresh user and group caches less than a day.

Rule version AIX7-00-001046 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-31

Discussion

If cached authentication information is out-of-date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable.

Check

If LDAP authentication is not required, this is Not Applicable.

Verify the "/etc/security/ldap/ldap.cfg" file to see if the following two keywords have a value that is greater than "900" seconds:

# grep -i usercachetimeout /etc/security/ldap/ldap.cfg usercachetimeout: 900

# grep -i groupcachetimeout /etc/security/ldap/ldap.cfg groupcachetimeout: 900

If any of the above keywords does not exist, is commented out, or any value of the above keywords are greater than "900", this is a finding.

Fix

Edit the "/etc/security/ldap/ldap.cfg" file to set the following two keywords to have value of "900": usercachetimeout groupcachetimeout

Restart LDAP client using command: # /usr/sbin/restart-secldapclntd

Identifiers

Group ID
V-215205
Group title
SRG-OS-000383-GPOS-00166
Rule ID
SV-215205r958828_rule
Check ID
C-16403r294066_chk
Fix ID
F-16401r294067_fix