F5BI-DM-300049 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

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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 shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Use of more characters in a password helps to exponentially increase the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.

Solution

From the BIG-IP GUI:
1. System.
2. Users.
3. Authentication.
4. Under "Password Policy" set "Secure Password Enforcement" to "Enabled".
5. Configure "Minimum Length" to 15.
6. Click "Update".

From the BIG-IP console, type the following command(s):

tmsh modify auth password-policy minimum-length 15
tmsh save sys config

Item Details

Audit Name: DISA F5 BIG-IP TMOS NDM STIG v1r2

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

Plugin: F5

Control ID: 803db4301f0de3667f9c25ec002c627633adceae9dccd94b35dbe7197ba369de

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F5BI-DM-300049 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

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