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1.266 RHEL-10-600425

Information

RHEL 10 must maintain an account lock until the locked account is released by an administrator.

GROUP ID: V-281197RULE ID: SV-281197r1166543

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 an account after three unsuccessful login attempts until released by an administrator with the following command:

$ authselect enable-feature with-faillock

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

unlock_time = 0

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-281197r1166543_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-10-600425, Vuln-ID|V-281197

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: e165921e2969e1da7591cbc0c1468ec1233d5921dab58a1b4496cc7a02f1b083