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V-239502

CAT II (Medium)

The SLES for vRealize must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations. Ensure the old passwords are being stored.

Rule ID

SV-239502r661957_rule

STIG

VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.x SLES Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R2

CCIs

CCI-000200

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" file does not exist, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Create the password history file. 

# touch /etc/security/opasswd
# chown root:root /etc/security/opasswd
# chmod 0600 /etc/security/opasswd