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1.248 RHEL-10-600200

Information

RHEL 10 must enforce a delay of at least four seconds between login prompts following a failed login attempt.

GROUP ID: V-281179RULE ID: SV-281179r1166489

Increasing the time between a failed authentication attempt and reprompting to enter credentials helps to slow a single-threaded brute-force attack.

Solution

Configure RHEL 10 to enforce a delay of at least four seconds between login prompts following a failed console login attempt.

Modify the "/etc/login.defs" file to set the "FAIL_DELAY" parameter to "4" or greater:

FAIL_DELAY 4

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/26403

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-7b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-002238, Rule-ID|SV-281179r1166489_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-10-600200, Vuln-ID|V-281179

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: b467274150ed74ceb5b3428b6488ac475978755350458040563af7193844216c