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V-221682CAT II — Medium severitySV-221682r1015178_rule

The Oracle Linux operating system must be configured so that passwords are restricted to a 24 hours/1 day minimum lifetime.

Rule version OL07-00-010240 · STIG v3 · 2025-05-08

Discussion

Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps to prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforcement requirement. If users are allowed to immediately and continually change their password, the password could be repeatedly changed in a short period of time to defeat the organization's policy regarding password reuse.

Check

Check whether the minimum time period between password changes for each user account is one day or greater.

# awk -F: '$4 < 1 {print $1 " " $4}' /etc/shadow

If any results are returned that are not associated with a system account, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure non-compliant accounts to enforce a 24 hours/1 day minimum password lifetime:

# chage -m 1 [user]

Identifiers

Group ID
V-221682
Group title
SRG-OS-000075-GPOS-00043
Rule ID
SV-221682r1015178_rule
Check ID
C-23397r419118_chk
Fix ID
F-23386r419119_fix