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Assessment Title
Rule Text
RHEL 10 must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one uppercase character be used.
Description
Discussion Text
Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.
Password complexity is one factor of several that determines how long it takes to crack a password. The more complex the password, the greater the number of possible combinations that must be tested before the password is compromised.
Requiring a minimum number of uppercase characters makes password guessing attacks more difficult by ensuring a larger search space.
Satisfies: SRG-OS-000069-GPOS-00037, SRG-OS-000070-GPOS-00038
Password complexity is one factor of several that determines how long it takes to crack a password. The more complex the password, the greater the number of possible combinations that must be tested before the password is compromised.
Requiring a minimum number of uppercase characters makes password guessing attacks more difficult by ensuring a larger search space.
Satisfies: SRG-OS-000069-GPOS-00037, SRG-OS-000070-GPOS-00038
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