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

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
GEN000460-ESXI5-PF	GEN000460-ESXI5-PF	GEN000460-ESXI5-PF_rule		Medium

Description
Disabling accounts after a limited number of unsuccessful login attempts improves protection against password guessing attacks. Permanent finding - Due to being the system default (non-configurable) behavior. The pam_tally.so module that supports this function is not part of the default installation.

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-GEN000460-ESXI5-PF_chk )
ESXi does not support this requirement. This is a permanent finding.

Fix Text (F-GEN000460-ESXI5-PF_fix)
This requirement is a permanent finding and cannot be fixed. An appropriate mitigation for the system must be implemented but this finding cannot be considered fixed.