II - Mission Support Classified
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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AIX Operating systems must enforce a 60-day maximum password lifetime restriction.
Any password, no matter how complex, can eventually be cracked. Therefore, passwords need to be changed periodically. If the operating system does not limit the lifetime of passwords and force user...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000078-GPOS-00046
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AIX must use Loadable Password Algorithm (LPA) password hashing algorithm.
The default legacy password hashing algorithm, crypt(), uses only the first 8 characters from the password string, meaning the user's password is truncated to eight characters. If the password is s...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000078-GPOS-00046
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AIX must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.
The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectivene...Rule High Severity
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The content of the drawer really is up to you. It could have form fields, definition lists, text lists, labels, charts, progress bars, etc. Spacing recommendation is 24px margins. You can put tabs in here, and can also make the drawer scrollable.
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