STIGQter STIGQter: STIG Summary: SLES 12 Security Technical Implementation Guide Version: 2 Release: 3 Benchmark Date: 23 Apr 2021:

The SUSE operating system must enforce passwords that contain at least one lower-case character.

DISA Rule

SV-217118r603262_rule

Vulnerability Number

V-217118

Group Title

SRG-OS-000070-GPOS-00038

Rule Version

SLES-12-010160

Severity

CAT II

CCI(s)

Weight

10

Fix Recommendation

Configure the SUSE operating system to enforce password complexity by requiring at least one lower-case character.

Edit "/etc/pam.d/common-password" and edit the line containing "pam_cracklib.so" to contain the option "lcredit=-1" after the third column.

Check Contents

Verify the SUSE operating system enforces password complexity by requiring that at least one lower-case character.

Check that the operating system enforces password complexity by requiring that at least one lower-case character be used by using the following command:

# grep pam_cracklib.so /etc/pam.d/common-password
password requisite pam_cracklib.so lcredit=-1

If the command does not return anything, the returned line is commented out, or has a second column value different from "requisite", or does not contain "lcredit=-1", this is a finding.

Vulnerability Number

V-217118

Documentable

False

Rule Version

SLES-12-010160

Severity Override Guidance

Verify the SUSE operating system enforces password complexity by requiring that at least one lower-case character.

Check that the operating system enforces password complexity by requiring that at least one lower-case character be used by using the following command:

# grep pam_cracklib.so /etc/pam.d/common-password
password requisite pam_cracklib.so lcredit=-1

If the command does not return anything, the returned line is commented out, or has a second column value different from "requisite", or does not contain "lcredit=-1", this is a finding.

Check Content Reference

M

Target Key

4033

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