The Photon operating system must ensure the old passwords are being stored.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| medium | V-256586 | SRG-OS-000077-GPOS-00045 | PHTN-30-000118 | SV-256586r982201_rule | 2024-12-16 | 1 |
Description
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. If the information system or application allows the user to consecutively reuse their password when that password has exceeded its defined lifetime, the result is a password that is not changed per policy requirements.
ℹ️ Check
At the command line, run the following command:
# ls -al /etc/security/opasswd
If "/etc/security/opasswd" does not exist, this is a finding.
✔️ Fix
At the command line, run the following commands:
# touch /etc/security/opasswd
# chown root:root /etc/security/opasswd
# chmod 0600 /etc/security/opasswd