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V-248694CAT II — Medium severitySV-248694r1015054_rule

OL 8 passwords for new users or password changes must have a 24 hours/one day minimum password lifetime restriction in "/etc/shadow".

Rule version OL08-00-020180 · STIG v2 · 2026-08-24

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

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

$ sudo 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/one day minimum password lifetime:

$ sudo chage -m 1 [user]

Identifiers

Group ID
V-248694
Group title
SRG-OS-000075-GPOS-00043
Rule ID
SV-248694r1015054_rule
Check ID
C-52128r779646_chk
Fix ID
F-52082r986358_fix