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1.265 RHEL-10-600420

Information

RHEL 10 must automatically lock an account when three unsuccessful login attempts occur during a 15-minute time period.

GROUP ID: V-281196
RULE ID: SV-281196r1166540

By limiting the number of failed login 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 RHEL 10 to lock out the "root" account after a number of incorrect login attempts within 15 minutes using "pam_faillock.so".

Enable the feature using the following command:

$ authselect enable-feature with-faillock

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

fail_interval = 900

See Also

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

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-7a., 800-53|AC-7b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000044, CCI|CCI-002238, Rule-ID|SV-281196r1166540_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-10-600420, Vuln-ID|V-281196

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 8ae34509177b022fb0dfd79b9d56ed07e261d7abfb6c3fbba14775aa95f78134