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

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-239502	VROM-SL-000400	SV-239502r661957_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 Operations Manager 6.x SLES Security Technical Implementation Guide	2021-07-01

Details

Check Text ( C-42735r661955_chk )
Verify that the old password file, "opasswd", exists, by running the following command: # ls /etc/security/opasswd If "/etc/security/opasswd" file does not exist, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-42694r661956_fix)
Create the password history file. # touch /etc/security/opasswd # chown root:root /etc/security/opasswd # chmod 0600 /etc/security/opasswd