SLEM 5 must be configured to not overwrite Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) configuration on package changes.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-261402	SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227	SLEM-05-631025	SV-261402r996624_rule	2025-05-08	1

Description
The "pam-config" command line utility automatically generates a system PAM configuration as packages are installed, updated, or removed from the system. "pam-config" removes configurations for PAM modules and parameters that it does not know about. It may render ineffective PAM configuration by the system administrator and thus impact system security.

ℹ️ Check
Verify SLEM 5 is configured to not overwrite PAM configuration on package changes with the following command: > find /etc/pam.d/ -type l -iname "common-*" If any results are returned, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Copy the PAM configuration files to their static locations and remove SLEM 5 soft links for the PAM configuration files with the following command: > sudo sh -c 'for X in /etc/pam.d/common-*-pc; do cp -ivp --remove-destination $X ${X:0:-3}; done' Additional information on the configuration of multifactor authentication on SLEM 5 can be found at https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/configuring-smart-card-authentication-suse-linux-enterprise/.

✔️ Fix

Copy the PAM configuration files to their static locations and remove SLEM 5 soft links for the PAM configuration files with the following command: > sudo sh -c 'for X in /etc/pam.d/common-*-pc; do cp -ivp --remove-destination $X ${X:0:-3}; done' Additional information on the configuration of multifactor authentication on SLEM 5 can be found at https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/configuring-smart-card-authentication-suse-linux-enterprise/.