Revision 1.3

Apr 12, 2023
Functional Update
  • RHEL-07-010120 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that when passwords are changed or new passwords are established, the new password must contain at least one upper-case character.
  • RHEL-07-010130 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that when passwords are changed or new passwords are established, the new password must contain at least one lower-case character.
  • RHEL-07-010140 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that when passwords are changed or new passwords are assigned, the new password must contain at least one numeric character.
  • RHEL-07-010150 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that when passwords are changed or new passwords are established, the new password must contain at least one special character.
  • RHEL-07-010160 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that when passwords are changed a minimum of eight of the total number of characters must be changed.
  • RHEL-07-010170 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that when passwords are changed a minimum of four character classes must be changed.
  • RHEL-07-010180 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that when passwords are changed the number of repeating consecutive characters must not be more than three characters.
  • RHEL-07-010190 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that when passwords are changed the number of repeating characters of the same character class must not be more than four characters.
  • RHEL-07-010210 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured to use the shadow file to store only encrypted representations of passwords.
  • RHEL-07-010230 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that passwords for new users are restricted to a 24 hours/1 day minimum lifetime.
  • RHEL-07-010250 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that passwords for new users are restricted to a 60-day maximum lifetime.
  • RHEL-07-010280 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that passwords are a minimum of 15 characters in length.
  • RHEL-07-010430 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that the delay between logon prompts following a failed console logon attempt is at least four seconds.
  • RHEL-07-020240 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must define default permissions for all authenticated users in such a way that the user can only read and modify their own files.
  • RHEL-07-020610 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that all local interactive user accounts, upon creation, are assigned a home directory.
Miscellaneous
  • Metadata updated.
  • Variables updated.