V-269781

Discussion

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.

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Determine if the OS10 Switch or its associated authentication server enforces a minimum 15-character password length. 

Review the configuration to verify that the min-length password-attribute is set to 15:

OS10# show running-configuration password-attributes
!
password-attributes min-length 15

If the OS10 Switch or its associated authentication server does not enforce a minimum 15-character password length, this is a finding.