V-221662

Discussion

A session time-out lock is a temporary action taken when a user stops work and moves away from the immediate physical vicinity of the information system but does not log out because of the temporary nature of the absence. Rather than relying on the user to lock their operating system session manually prior to leaving the workstation, operating systems must be able to identify when a user's session has idled and take action to initiate the session lock. The session lock is implemented at the point where session activity can be determined and/or controlled.

Check Content

Verify the operating system prevents a user from overriding session idle delay after a 15-minute period of inactivity for graphical user interfaces. 

Note: If the system does not have GNOME installed, this requirement is Not Applicable. 

Determine which profile the system database is using with the following command:
     # grep system-db /etc/dconf/profile/user
     system-db:local

Check for the session idle delay setting with the following command:

Note: The example below is using the database "local" for the system, so the path is "/etc/dconf/db/local.d". This path must be modified if a database other than "local" is being used.

     # grep -i idle-delay /etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/*
     /org/gnome/desktop/session/idle-delay

If the command does not return a result, this is a finding.