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PHTN-67-000029 - The Photon operating system must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.
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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. If the information system or application allows the user to consecutively reuse their password when that password has exceeded its defined lifetime, the end result is a password that is not changed as per policy requirements.Solution
Open /etc/pam.d/system-password with a text editor.Add the following line after the last auth statement:
password required pam_pwhistory.so enforce_for_root use_authtok remember=5 retry=3
See Also
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_6-7_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA STIG VMware vSphere 6.7 Photon OS v1r1
References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000200, Rule-ID|SV-239101r675111_rule, STIG-ID|PHTN-67-000029, Vuln-ID|V-239101
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: 9463922ff081a28865e7d2e445a149125d14f95668fc88f6ceea6e64adcf53b0