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V-223891CAT II — Medium severitySV-223891r998492_rule

The CA-TSS PPHIST Control Option must be properly set.

Rule version TSS0-ES-000180 · STIG v9 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

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.

Check

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

Configure the PPHIST Control Option value to conforms to the following requirements:

PPHIST(10-64)

Example:

TSS MODIFY PPHIST(10)

Identifiers

Group ID
V-223891
Group title
SRG-OS-000077-GPOS-00045
Rule ID
SV-223891r998492_rule
Check ID
C-25564r516072_chk
Fix ID
F-25552r516073_fix