STIGUI
V-282714CAT II — Medium severitySV-282714r1201379_rule

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

Rule version TOSS-05-000260 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

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

Check

Verify the SSH daemon provides users with feedback on when account accesses last occurred using 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'

PrintLastLog yes

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

Fix

Configure the SSH daemon to provide users with feedback on when account accesses last occurred.

Add the following line in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" or uncomment the line and set the value to "yes":

PrintLastLog yes

Restart the SSH service for changes to take effect:

$ sudo systemctl restart sshd.service

Identifiers

Group ID
V-282714
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-282714r1201379_rule
Check ID
C-87275r1201120_chk
Fix ID
F-87180r1201378_fix