The SLES for vRealize must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations - old passwords are being stored.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-240405	VRAU-SL-000405	SV-240405r670956_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
VMware vRealize Automation 7.x SLES Security Technical Implementation Guide	2021-06-24

Details

Check Text ( C-43638r670954_chk )
Verify that the old password file "opasswd" exists, by running the following command: # ls /etc/security/opasswd If "/etc/security/opasswd" does not exist, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-43597r670955_fix)
Create the password history file. # touch /etc/security/opasswd # chown root:root /etc/security/opasswd # chmod 0600 /etc/security/opasswd