Set Existing Passwords Minimum Age
Description
Configure non-compliant accounts to enforce a 24 hours/1 day minimum password
lifetime by running the following command:
Rationale
Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps to prevent repeated password
changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforcement requirement. If
users are allowed to immediately and continually change their password, the
password could be repeatedly changed in a short period of time to defeat the
organization’s policy regarding password reuse.
Shell script
The following script can be run on the host to remediate the issue.
#!/bin/bash
var_accounts_minimum_age_login_defs='1'
while IFS= read -r i; do
chage -m $var_accounts_minimum_age_login_defs $i
done < <(awk -v var="$var_accounts_minimum_age_login_defs" -F: '(/^[^:]+:[^!*]/ && ($4 < var || $4 == "")) {print $1}' /etc/shadow)
Ansible playbook
The following playbook can be run with Ansible to remediate the issue.
- name: XCCDF Value var_accounts_minimum_age_login_defs # promote to variable
set_fact:
var_accounts_minimum_age_login_defs: !!str 1
tags:
- always
- name: Collect users with not correct minimum time period between password changes
command: |
awk -F':' '(/^[^:]+:[^!*]/ && ($4 < {{ var_accounts_minimum_age_login_defs }} || $4 == "")) {print $1}' /etc/shadow
register: user_names
tags:
- NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)
- NIST-800-53-IA-5(1)(d)
- NIST-800-53-IA-5(f)
- accounts_password_set_min_life_existing
- low_complexity
- low_disruption
- medium_severity
- no_reboot_needed
- restrict_strategy
- name: Change the minimum time period between password changes
command: |
chage -m {{ var_accounts_minimum_age_login_defs }} {{ item }}
with_items: '{{ user_names.stdout_lines }}'
when: user_names.stdout_lines | length > 0
tags:
- NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)
- NIST-800-53-IA-5(1)(d)
- NIST-800-53-IA-5(f)
- accounts_password_set_min_life_existing
- low_complexity
- low_disruption
- medium_severity
- no_reboot_needed
- restrict_strategy
