Description UsePAM Enables the Pluggable Authentication Module interface. If set to yes this will enable PAM authentication using ChallengeResponseAuthentication and PasswordAuthentication in addition to PAM account and session module processing for all authentication types Rationale When usePAM is set to yes, PAM runs through account and session types properly. This is important if you want to restrict access to services based off of IP, time or other factors of the account. Additionally, you can make sure users inherit certain environment variables on login or disallow access to the server Remediation Edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file to set the parameter as follows: UsePAM yes Impact: If UsePAM is enabled, you will not be able to run sshd(8) as a non-root user.

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Edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file to set the parameter as follows: UsePAM yes