The HYCU virtual appliance must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
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.
- ID
- SV-268266r1038758_rule
- Version
- HYCU-ND-000580
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Add the following line to "/etc/security/pwquality.conf" (or modify the line to have the required value).
minlen = 15
Add or modify the following line in the /opt/grizzly/config.properties configuration file:
user.password.min.length=15