STIGUI
V-216093CAT II — Medium severitySV-216093r1016288_rule

The operating system must enforce password complexity requiring that at least one lowercase character is used.

Rule version SOL-11.1-040080 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

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

Check

Check the MINLOWER setting.

# grep ^MINLOWER /etc/default/passwd

If MINLOWER 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:

MINLOWER

Change the line to read:

MINLOWER=1

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216093
Group title
SRG-OS-000070
Rule ID
SV-216093r1016288_rule
Check ID
C-17331r986435_chk
Fix ID
F-17329r986436_fix