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1.164 AZLX-23-002470

Information

Amazon Linux 2023 must maintain an account lock until the locked account is released by an administrator.

GROUP ID: V-274157RULE ID: SV-274157r1120459

By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-forcing, is reduced. Limits are imposed by locking the account.

Solution

Configure Amazon Linux 2023 to lock an account until released by an administrator after three unsuccessful logon attempts with the command:

$ authselect enable-feature with-faillock

Then edit the "/etc/security/faillock.conf" file as follows:

unlock_time = 0

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/26107

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-7b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-002238, Rule-ID|SV-274157r1120459_rule, STIG-ID|AZLX-23-002470, Vuln-ID|V-274157

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 53e2493730c2f2f960dfd9c532785c0be70a675671d17f6ce6d1cfbe17c574dc