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

From Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000044

SV-61117r1_rule The system must disable accounts after three consecutive unsuccessful login attempts.

Vulnerability discussion

Allowing continued access to accounts on the system exposes them to brute-force password-guessing attacks.

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The root role is required. # pfedit /etc/default/login Change the line: #RETRIES=5 to read RETRIES=3 pfedit /etc/security/policy.conf Change the line containing #LOCK_AFTER_RETRIES to read: LOCK_AFTER_RETRIES=YES If a user has lock_after_retries set to "no", update the user's attributes using the command: # usermod -K lock_after_retries=yes [username]

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