The system must prevent the use of dictionary words for passwords.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-22307	GEN000790	SV-26345r1_rule	IAIA-1 IAIA-2	Medium

Description
An easily guessable password provides an open door to any external or internal malicious intruder. Many computer compromises occur as the result of account name and password guessing. This is generally done by someone with an automated script using repeated logon attempts until the correct account and password pair is guessed. Utilities, such as cracklib, can be used to validate passwords are not dictionary words and meet other criteria during password changes.

Description

An easily guessable password provides an open door to any external or internal malicious intruder. Many computer compromises occur as the result of account name and password guessing. This is generally done by someone with an automated script using repeated logon attempts until the correct account and password pair is guessed. Utilities, such as cracklib, can be used to validate passwords are not dictionary words and meet other criteria during password changes.

STIG	Date
Solaris 10 X86 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2014-04-04

Details

Check Text ( C-27451r2_chk )
Check /etc/default/passwd for dictionary check configuration. # grep DICTION /etc/default/passwd If the DICTIONLIST or DICTIONDBDIR settings are not present, or are set to non-existent files or directories, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-23521r1_fix)
Edit /etc/default/passwd; add or set DICTIONLIST to the dictionary file and DICTIONDBDIR to a database directory such as /var/passwd. Generate the password dictionary by running the mkpwdict command.