STIGUI
V-216097CAT II — Medium severitySV-216097r959010_rule

The system must not have accounts configured with blank or null passwords.

Rule version SOL-11.1-040120 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

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

Check

The root role is required.

Determine if accounts with blank or null passwords exist.

# logins -po

If any account is listed, this is a finding.

Fix

The root role is required.

Remove, lock, or configure a password for any account with a blank password.

# passwd [username] or Use the passwd -l command to lock accounts that are not permitted to execute commands. or Use the passwd -N command to set accounts to be non-login.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216097
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216097r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17335r372673_chk
Fix ID
F-17333r372674_fix