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RHEL-10-600200 - RHEL 10 must enforce a delay of at least four seconds between login prompts following a failed login attempt.
Information
Increasing the time between a failed authentication attempt and reprompting to enter credentials helps to slow a single-threaded brute-force attack.Solution
Configure RHEL 10 to enforce a delay of at least four seconds between login prompts following a failed console login attempt.Modify the "/etc/login.defs" file to set the "FAIL_DELAY" parameter to "4" or greater:
FAIL_DELAY 4
See Also
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_RHEL_10_V1R1_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 STIG v1r1
Category: ACCESS CONTROL
References: 800-53|AC-7b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-002238, Rule-ID|SV-281179r1166489_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-10-600200, Vuln-ID|V-281179
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: 217f98533bea8fd4e0ae20bbb101c03d0a95d501e48edd1df682e75052bf3311