The NSX Manager must enforce a minimum 15-character password length for local accounts.
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-265316r994171_rule
- Version
- NMGR-4X-000039
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
From an NSX Manager shell, run the following command:
> set password-complexity minimum-password-length 15