Rule ID
SV-256586r982201_rule
Version
V1R4
CCIs
CCI-000200
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.
At the command line, run the following command: # ls -al /etc/security/opasswd If "/etc/security/opasswd" does not exist, this is a finding.
At the command line, run the following commands: # touch /etc/security/opasswd # chown root:root /etc/security/opasswd # chmod 0600 /etc/security/opasswd