STIGUI
V-216092CAT II — Medium severitySV-216092r1016287_rule

The system must require passwords to contain at least one uppercase alphabetic character.

Rule version SOL-11.1-040070 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

Complex passwords can reduce the likelihood of success of automated password-guessing attacks.

Check

Check the MINUPPER setting.

# grep ^MINUPPER /etc/default/passwd

If MINUPPER is not set to one or more, this is a finding.

Fix

The root role is required.

# pfedit /etc/default/passwd 

Locate the line containing:

MINUPPER

Change the line to read:

MINUPPER=1

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216092
Group title
SRG-OS-000069
Rule ID
SV-216092r1016287_rule
Check ID
C-17330r986432_chk
Fix ID
F-17328r986433_fix