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The Photon operating system must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-239101 PHTN-67-000029 SV-239101r816615_rule Medium
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 end result is a password that is not changed as per policy requirements.
STIG Date
VMware vSphere 6.7 Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide 2022-01-03

Details

Check Text ( C-42312r675109_chk )
At the command line, execute the following command:

# grep pam_pwhistory /etc/pam.d/system-password|grep --color=always "remember=."

Expected result:

password required pam_pwhistory.so enforce_for_root use_authtok remember=5 retry=3

If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-42271r816614_fix)
Open /etc/applmgmt/appliance/system-password with a text editor.

Add the following line after the last auth statement:

password required pam_pwhistory.so enforce_for_root use_authtok remember=5 retry=3

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