The SUSE operating system must employ a password history file.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-217132	SLES-12-010300	SV-217132r603262_rule		Medium

Description
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. If the information system or application allows the user to consecutively reuse their password when that password has exceeded its defined lifetime, the end result is a password that is not changed as per policy requirements.

STIG	Date
SLES 12 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2022-12-06

Details

Check Text ( C-18360r369552_chk )
Verify the password history file exists on the SUSE operating system. Check that the password history file exists with the following command: # ls -al /etc/security/opasswd -rw------- 1 root root 7 Dec 13 17:21 /etc/security/opasswd If "/etc/security/opasswd" does not exist, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-18358r369553_fix)
Configure the SUSE operating system to create the password history file with the following commands: # sudo touch /etc/security/opasswd # sudo chown root:root /etc/security/opasswd # sudo chmod 0600 /etc/security/opasswd