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1.318 OL09-00-002417

Information

OL 9 must maintain an account lock until the locked account is released by an administrator.

GROUP ID: V-271755
RULE ID: SV-271755r1091977

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.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000329-GPOS-00128, SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

Solution

Configure OL 9 to lock an account until released by an administrator after three unsuccessful logon attempts with the command:

$ sudo 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/27024

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-7a., 800-53|AC-7b., CCI|CCI-000044, CCI|CCI-002238, Rule-ID|SV-271755r1091977_rule, STIG-ID|OL09-00-002417, Vuln-ID|V-271755

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: fc41005e24761fc75ba4372043171f8bb6024599726e5dc132969b74e7bf0ab0