PHTN-67-000022 - The Photon operating system must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lowercase character be used.

Information

Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.

Solution

Open /etc/applmgmt/appliance/system-password with a text editor.

Comment out any existing 'pam_cracklib.so' line and add the following:

password requisite pam_cracklib.so dcredit=-1 ucredit=-1 lcredit=-1 ocredit=-1 minlen=8 minclass=4 difok=4 retry=3 maxsequence=0 enforce_for_root

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See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_6-7_Y23M07_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-5(1)(a), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000193, Rule-ID|SV-239094r816607_rule, STIG-ID|PHTN-67-000022, Vuln-ID|V-239094

Plugin: Unix

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