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The system must disable accounts after three consecutive unsuccessful login attempts.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-766 GEN000460 SV-44834r1_rule Medium
Description
Disabling accounts after a limited number of unsuccessful login attempts improves protection against password guessing attacks.
STIG Date
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v11 for System z 2016-12-20

Details

Check Text ( C-42305r1_chk )
Check the pam_tally configuration.
# more /etc/pam.d/login
Confirm the following line is configured, before the "common-auth” file is included:
auth required pam_tally.so deny=3 onerr=fail
# more /etc/pam.d/sshd
Confirm the following line is configured, before the "common-auth” file is included:
auth required pam_tally.so deny=3 onerr=fail

If no such line is found, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-38271r1_fix)
Edit /etc/pam.d/login and/or /etc/pam.d/sshd and add the following line, before the "common-auth" file is included:
auth required pam_tally.so deny=3 onerr=fail