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1.79 SOL-11.1-040080

Information

The operating system must enforce password complexity requiring that at least one lowercase character is used.

GROUP ID: V-216328
RULE ID: SV-216328r1016273

Complex passwords can reduce the likelihood of success of automated password-guessing attacks.

Solution

The root role is required.

# pfedit /etc/default/passwd

Locate the line containing:

MINLOWER

Change the line to read:

MINLOWER=1

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23765

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-5(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000193, CCI|CCI-004066, Rule-ID|SV-216328r1016273_rule, STIG-ID|SOL-11.1-040080, Vuln-ID|V-216328

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: bbe4ee525e88d9e13defad365e960bfae4dcfe97e692e093706dba4e80015d17