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PHTN-40-000041 - The Photon operating system must enforce one day as the minimum password lifetime.

Information

Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps to prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforcement requirement. If users are allowed to immediately and continually change their password, then the password could be repeatedly changed in a short period of time to defeat the organization's policy regarding password reuse.

Solution

Navigate to and open:

/etc/login.defs

Add or update the following line:

PASS_MIN_DAYS 1

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_8-0_Y26M07_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-5(1)(d), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000198, CCI|CCI-004066, Rule-ID|SV-258820r1015944_rule, STIG-ID|PHTN-40-000041, Vuln-ID|V-258820

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 04054bc5b5f4902936e55832307ffbbd7517999990e3e7014371dd5978297f05