V-256586

Discussion

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 result is a password that is not changed per policy requirements.

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command:

# ls -al /etc/security/opasswd

If "/etc/security/opasswd" does not exist, this is a finding.