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Assessment Title
Rule Text
The Photon operating system must include root when automatically locking an account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts occur during a 15-minute time period.
Description
Discussion Text
By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-force attacks, is reduced. Limits are imposed by locking the account.
Unless specified the root account is not included in the default faillock module options and should be included.
Unless specified the root account is not included in the default faillock module options and should be included.
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