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Catalina - Disable Proximity Based Password Sharing Requests

Information

Proximity based password sharing requests _MUST_ be disabled.

The default behavior of macOS is to allow users to request passwords from other known devices (macOS and iOS). This feature _MUST_ be disabled to prevent passwords from being shared.

Solution

This is implemented by a Configuration Profile.

mobileconfig profile info:

com.apple.applicationaccess:
 allowPasswordProximityRequests:
 False

See Also

https://github.com/usnistgov/macos_security

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-5, CCE|CCE-84775-6

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: ae75f8304c22551e63f618b2d30fd45a74ac97225e7283f178111af724fb8b29