The HPE Alletra Storage ArcusOS device must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to determine strength and how long it takes to crack a password.

The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that must be tested before the password is compromised. Use of more characters in a password helps to increase exponentially the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.

Verify the minimum password length is 15 characters with the following command:

cli% showsys -d

Minimum PW length 15

If the line containing the string "Minimum PW length" does not show "15" for the length, this is a finding.

Configure the minimum password length for a value of "15":

cli% setsys MinimumPWLength 15

Note: The user must have the "super" role to perform this action.