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1.76 UBTU-22-411025

Information

The operating system must enforce 24 hours/one day as the minimum password lifetime. Passwords for new users must have a 24 hours/one day minimum password lifetime restriction.

GROUP ID: V-260545
RULE ID: SV-260545r1015007

Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps to prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforcement requirement. If users are allowed to immediately and continually change their password, then the password could be repeatedly changed in a short period of time to defeat the organization's policy regarding password reuse.

Solution

Configure the operating system to enforce a 24 hours/one day minimum password lifetime.

Add or modify the following line in the "/etc/login.defs" file:

PASS_MIN_DAYS 1

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/22168

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-5(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000198, CCI|CCI-004066, CSCv7|4.4, Rule-ID|SV-260545r1015007_rule, STIG-ID|UBTU-22-411025, Vuln-ID|V-260545

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 68a867b0e4f994d81eaa300811509d11e87c18cb8f71d7d58206dd9547028092