AOSX-15-003010 - The macOS system must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

Information

The minimum password length must be set to 15 characters. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to determine strength and how long it takes to crack a password. The use of more characters in a password helps to exponentially increase the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.

Solution

This setting is enforced using the 'Passcode Policy' configuration profile.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Apple_OS_X_10-15_V1R10_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-5(1)(a), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000205, Rule-ID|SV-225208r610901_rule, STIG-ID|AOSX-15-003010, STIG-Legacy|SV-111797, STIG-Legacy|V-102835, Vuln-ID|V-225208

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 90b4c084ca6a82e2879e52f0d1d6d408f7b197bebc82ecff191ce8b5d1a65ed9