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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Security Technical Implementation Guide
SRG-OS-000077-GPOS-00045
RHEL 8 must be configured in the system-auth file to prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.
RHEL 8 must be configured in the system-auth file to prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.
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RHEL 8 must be configured in the system-auth file to prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>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 reuse their password consecutively when that password has exceeded its defined lifetime, the end result is a password that is not changed per policy requirements. RHEL 8 uses "pwhistory" consecutively as a mechanism to prohibit password reuse. This is set in both: /etc/pam.d/password-auth /etc/pam.d/system-auth. Note that manual changes to the listed files may be overwritten by the "authselect" program.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>