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V-261339CAT II — Medium severitySV-261339r996480_rule

SLEM 5 must display the date and time of the last successful account logon upon an SSH logon.

Rule version SLEM-05-255070 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

Providing users with feedback on when account accesses via SSH last occurred facilitates user recognition and reporting of unauthorized account use.

Check

Verify all remote connections via SSH to SLEM 5 display feedback on when account accesses last occurred with the following command:

     > sudo /usr/sbin/sshd -dd 2>&1 | awk '/filename/ {print $4}' | tr -d '\r' | tr '\n' ' ' | xargs sudo grep -iH '^\s*printlastlog'
     /etc/ssh/sshd_config:PrintLastLog yes

If the "PrintLastLog" is not set to "yes", is commented out, missing, or conflicting results are returned, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure SLEM 5 to provide users with feedback on when account accesses last occurred.

Add or modify the following lines in the "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" file:

PrintLastLog yes

Restart the SSH daemon in order for the changes to take effect:

     > sudo systemctl restart sshd.service

Identifiers

Group ID
V-261339
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-261339r996480_rule
Check ID
C-65068r996478_chk
Fix ID
F-64976r996479_fix