The Photon operating system must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.
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. If the information system or application allows the user to consecutively reuse their password when that password has exceeded its defined lifetime, the end result is a password that is not changed as per policy requirements.
- ID
- SV-258822r933527_rule
- Version
- PHTN-40-000043
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Navigate to and open:
/etc/pam.d/system-password
Configure the pam_pwhistory.so line to have the "remember" option set to 5 or greater as follows: