STIGUI
V-252965CAT II — Medium severitySV-252965r991589_rule

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

Rule version TOSS-04-020260 · STIG v2 · 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 SSH provides users with feedback on when account accesses last occurred with the following command:

$ sudo grep -i printlastlog /etc/ssh/sshd_config

PrintLastLog yes

If the "PrintLastLog" keyword is set to "no", is missing, or is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure SSH to provide users with feedback on when account accesses last occurred by setting the required configuration options in "/etc/pam.d/sshd" or in the "sshd_config" file used by the system ("/etc/ssh/sshd_config" will be used in the example) (this file may be named differently or be in a different location if using a version of SSH that is provided by a third-party vendor).

Modify the "PrintLastLog" line in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" to match the following:

PrintLastLog yes

The SSH service must be restarted for changes to "sshd_config" to take effect.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-252965
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-252965r991589_rule
Check ID
C-56418r824217_chk
Fix ID
F-56368r824218_fix