PHTN-40-000195 - The Photon operating system must include root when automatically locking an account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts occur during a 15-minute time period.

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By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-force attacks, is reduced. Limits are imposed by locking the account.

Unless specified the root account is not included in the default faillock module options and should be included.

Solution

Navigate to and open:

/etc/security/faillock.conf

Add or update the following lines:

even_deny_root

Note: On vCenter appliances, the equivalent file must be edited under "/etc/applmgmt/appliance", if one exists, for the changes to persist after a reboot.

Item Details

Audit Name: DISA VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 STIG v2r1

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 862a37274b694a068b0c82bcc52a403c203cbf29d586a34bc21f3ef1ff5414b6

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PHTN-40-000195 - The Photon operating system must include root when automatically locking an account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts occur during a 15-minute time period.

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