Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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Version

V1 · R18

CurrentPublished Fri Apr 28 2017

The system must require passwords contain no more than three consecutive repeating characters.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

The system must require passwords contain no more than three consecutive repeating characters.

Description

Discussion Text

To enforce the use of complex passwords, the number of consecutive repeating characters is limited. Passwords with excessive repeated characters may be more vulnerable to password-guessing attacks.

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Objective

V-11975

Rule

SV-37294r1_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

GEN000680

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Check the maxrepeat setting.

Procedure:
Check the password maxrepeat configuration
# grep pam_cracklib.so /etc/pam.d/system-auth

If the maxrepeat option is missing, this is a finding.
If the maxrepeat option is set to more than 3, this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

 Edit "/etc/pam.d/system-auth" to include the line:

password required pam_cracklib.so maxrepeat=3

prior to the "password include system-auth-ac" line.

STIG check 32 of 571 in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 STIG checklist

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