The CA-TSS PPHIST Control Option must be properly set.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
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| medium | V-223891 | SRG-OS-000077-GPOS-00045 | TSS0-ES-000180 | SV-223891r998492_rule | 2025-06-24 | 9 |
| Description |
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| Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. If the information system or application allows the user to consecutively reuse their password when that password has exceeded its defined lifetime, the end result is a password that is not changed as per policy requirements. |
| ℹ️ Check |
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| From the ISPF Command Shell enter: TSS MODIFY STATUS If the PPHIST Control Option conforms to the following requirements, this is not a finding. PPHIST(10-64) |
| ✔️ Fix |
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| Configure the PPHIST Control Option value to conforms to the following requirements: PPHIST(10-64) Example: TSS MODIFY PPHIST(10) |