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XCCDF
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide
SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005
SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005
An XCCDF Group - A logical subset of the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005
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RHEL 9 must ensure account lockouts persist.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>Having lockouts persist across reboots ensures that account is only unlocked by an administrator. If the lockouts did not persist across reboots, an attacker could simply reboot the system to continue brute force attacks against the accounts on the system.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>