V-240405

Discussion

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.

Check Content

Verify that the old password file "opasswd" exists, by running the following command:

# ls /etc/security/opasswd

If "/etc/security/opasswd" does not exist, this is a finding.