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The Ubuntu operating system must automatically lock an account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts have been made.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-forcing, is reduced. Limits are imposed by locking the account. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000329-GPOS-00128, SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

ID
SV-238235r958736_rule
Version
UBTU-20-010072
Severity
Low
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the Ubuntu operating system to utilize the "pam_faillock" module. 

Edit the /etc/pam.d/common-auth file. 

Add the following lines below the "auth" definition for pam_unix.so:
auth     [default=die]  pam_faillock.so authfail