The Photon operating system must ensure the old passwords are being stored.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
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| medium | V-256586 | SRG-OS-000077-GPOS-00045 | PHTN-30-000118 | SV-256586r982201_rule | 2024-12-16 | 1 |
| Description |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| At the command line, run the following commands: # touch /etc/security/opasswd # chown root:root /etc/security/opasswd # chmod 0600 /etc/security/opasswd |