PHTN-40-000185 - The Photon operating system must enforce a delay of at least four seconds between logon prompts following a failed logon attempt in login.defs.

Information

Limiting the number of logon attempts over a certain time interval reduces the chances that an unauthorized user may gain access to an account.

Solution

Navigate to and open:

/etc/login.defs

Add or update the following line:

FAIL_DELAY 4

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_8-0_Y26M10_STIG.zip

Item Details

Audit Name: DISA VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 STIG v2r3

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-258854r991588_rule, STIG-ID|PHTN-40-000185, Vuln-ID|V-258854

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 698db485bffb91bdcaacad724864bcdea292579b05f2f2dde1276461dfe1c917