The system must enforce compliance of the entire password during authentification.

From SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v11 for System z

Associated with: CCI-000205

SV-44862r1_rule The system must enforce compliance of the entire password during authentification.

Vulnerability discussion

Some common password hashing schemes only process the first eight characters of a user's password, which reduces the effective strength of the password.

Check content

Verify no password hash in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow begins with a character other than an underscore (_) or dollar sign ($). # cut -d ':' -f2 /etc/passwd # cut -d ':' -f2 /etc/shadow If any password hash is present that does not have an initial underscore (_) or dollar sign ($) character, this is a finding.

Fix text

Change the passwords for all accounts using non-compliant password hashes. (This requires GEN000590 is already met.)

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