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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
System Settings
Account and Access Control
Protect Accounts by Configuring PAM
Set Password Quality Requirements
Set Password Quality Requirements with pam_pwquality
Ensure PAM password complexity module is enabled in password-auth
Ensure PAM password complexity module is enabled in password-auth
An XCCDF Rule
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Ensure PAM password complexity module is enabled in password-auth
Medium Severity
To enable PAM password complexity in password-auth file: Edit the
password
section in
/etc/pam.d/password-auth
to show
password requisite pam_pwquality.so
.