ONTAP must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-246951	SRG-APP-000164-NDM-000252	NAOT-IA-000005	SV-246951r1015270_rule	2024-08-22	2

Description
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.

Description

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.

ℹ️ Check
Use "security login role config show -role admin -fields passwd-minlength" to see the minimum password length for the role admin. If ONTAP is not configured to enforce a minimum 15-character password length, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Configure the minimum password length for the role admin to 15 with "security login role config modify -vserver <vserver name> -role admin -passwd-minlength 15".