APPL-11-003010 - The macOS system must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

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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_macOS_11_V1R6_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000205, Rule-ID|SV-230834r599842_rule, STIG-ID|APPL-11-003010, Vuln-ID|V-230834

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 8cb3258235446fb86fddbe90806b873187ee3a344f41c78c8991920d84858c7b