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V-256485CAT II — Medium severitySV-256485r1268219_rule

The Photon operating system must have the sshd LogLevel set to "INFO".

Rule version PHTN-30-000008 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-31

Discussion

Automated monitoring of remote access sessions allows organizations to detect cyberattacks and ensure ongoing compliance with remote access policies by auditing connection activities.

The INFO LogLevel is required, at least, to ensure the capturing of failed login events.

Check

At the command line, run the following command:

# sshd -T|&grep -i LogLevel

Expected result:

LogLevel INFO

If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix

Navigate to and open:

/etc/ssh/sshd_config

Ensure the "LogLevel" line is uncommented and set to the following:

LogLevel INFO

At the command line, run the following command:

# systemctl restart sshd.service

Identifiers

Group ID
V-256485
Group title
SRG-OS-000032-GPOS-00013
Rule ID
SV-256485r1268219_rule
Check ID
C-60160r887127_chk
Fix ID
F-60103r887128_fix