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PHTN-30-000118 - The Photon operating system must ensure the old passwords are being stored.
Information
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 result is a password that is not changed per policy requirements.Solution
At the command line, run the following commands:# touch /etc/security/opasswd
# chown root:root /etc/security/opasswd
# chmod 0600 /etc/security/opasswd
See Also
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_7-0_Y25M01_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA STIG VMware vSphere 7.0 Photon OS v1r4
Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION
References: 800-53|IA-5(1)(e), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000200, Rule-ID|SV-256586r982201_rule, STIG-ID|PHTN-30-000118, Vuln-ID|V-256586
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: 3be66bee9d6607a289a53452ff42eca085a29d04d3c15450554a99348803cf98