V-215437

Discussion

To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, privileged and non-privileged users must utilize multifactor authentication to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Multifactor authentication uses two or more factors to achieve authentication. Factors include: 1. Something you know (e.g., password/PIN); 2. Something you have (e.g., cryptographic identification device, token); and 3. Something you are (e.g., biometric). The DoD CAC with DoD-approved PKI is an example of multifactor authentication.

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Verify the global "auth_type" is configured to use PAM: 

# grep auth_type /etc/security/login.cfg |grep AUTH 

auth_type = PAM_AUTH

If "auth_type" is not set to "PAM_AUTH", this is a finding.


Verify that the user stanza is configured to use PAM:

# lssec -f /etc/security/login.cfg -susw -a auth_type
   
usw auth_type=PAM_AUTH

If "auth_type" is not set to "PAM_AUTH", this is a finding.