RHEL 9 must maintain an account lock until the locked account is released by an administrator.
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-258057r1045146_rule
- Version
- RHEL-09-411090
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Configure RHEL 9 to lock an account until released by an administrator after three unsuccessful logon attempts with the command:
$ sudo authselect enable-feature with-faillock
Edit the "/etc/security/faillock.conf" file as follows:
unlock_time = 0