The operating system must enforce the organization-defined time period during which the limit of consecutive invalid access attempts by a user is counted.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-51419	OSX8-00-01325	SV-65629r1_rule		Medium

Description
By limiting the number of failed login attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute forcing, is reduced. Limits are imposed by locking the account.

STIG	Date
Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG	2015-02-10

Details

Check Text ( C-53755r1_chk )
To check if the password policy is configured to disabled an account within 15 minutes of failed attempts, run the following command: sudo pwpolicy -getglobalpolicy | tr " " "\n" | grep minutesUntilFailedLoginReset If the result is not "minutesUntilFailedLoginReset=15", this is a finding. This is NA for machines bound to a directory server.

Fix Text (F-56217r1_fix)
To set the password policy, run the following command: sudo pwpolicy setglobalpolicy "minutesUntilFailedLoginReset=15"