II - Mission Support Sensitive
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000077-GPOS-00045
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SLEM 5 must not allow passwords to be reused for a minimum of five generations.
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...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041
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SLEM 5 must configure the Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to only store encrypted representations of passwords.
Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are not encrypted, they can be plainly read (i.e., clear text) and easily c...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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SLEM 5 must not be configured to allow blank or null passwords.
Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are not encrypted, they can be plainly read (i.e., clear text) and easily c...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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SLEM 5 must not have accounts configured with blank or null passwords.
If an account has an empty password, anyone could log on and run commands with the privileges of that account. Accounts with empty passwords should never be used in operational environments.Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000075-GPOS-00043
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SLEM 5 must employ user passwords with a minimum lifetime of 24 hours (one day).
Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforcement requirement. If users are allowed to immediately and continually ch...Rule Medium Severity
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