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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • The SUSE operating system must require the change of at least eight of the total number of characters when passwords are changed.

    <VulnDiscussion>If the SUSE operating system allows the user to consecutively reuse extensive portions of passwords, this increases the chanc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system must configure the Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to only store encrypted representations of passwords.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system must employ FIPS 140-2-approved cryptographic hashing algorithms for all stored passwords.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The system must use a strong hashing algorithm to store the password. The system must use a sufficient number of hashing roun...
    Rule Medium Severity

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