The NSX-T Manager must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to determine strength and how long it takes to crack a password.

The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Use of more characters in a password helps to exponentially increase the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.

From an NSX-T Manager shell, run the following command(s):

> get auth-policy minimum-password-length

Expected result: 15 characters

If the "minimum-password-length" is not set to 15 or greater, this is a finding.

From an NSX-T Manager shell, run the following command(s):

> set auth-policy minimum-password-length 15