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V-258866

CAT II (Medium)

The Photon operating system must enable Secure Shell (SSH) authentication logging.

Rule ID

SV-258866r933659_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000067

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 Content

At the command line, run the following command to verify the running configuration of sshd:

# sshd -T|&grep -i LogLevel

Example result:

loglevel INFO

If "LogLevel" is not set to "INFO", this is a finding.

Fix Text

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