User passwords must be at least 15 characters in length.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-47957	SOL-11.1-040040	SV-60829r1_rule		Medium

Description
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to determine strength and how long it takes to crack a password. The shorter the password is, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Use of more characters in a password helps to exponentially increase the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.

Description

Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to determine strength and how long it takes to crack a password. The shorter the password is, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Use of more characters in a password helps to exponentially increase the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.

STIG	Date
Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide	2019-12-18

Details

Check Text ( C-50393r1_chk )
Check the system password length setting. # grep ^PASSLENGTH /etc/default/passwd If PASSLENGTH is not set to 15 or more, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-51569r1_fix)
The root role is required. # pfedit /etc/default/passwd Locate the line containing: PASSLENGTH Change the line to read PASSLENGTH=15