openstack/ansible-hardening
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ansible-hardening/doc/metadata/rhel7/V-71909.rst
Major Hayden 6e761efc9c
Move tasks to 'accounts' file 
Several tasks in the auth.yml file were actually more closely related
to accounts rather than authentication. This patch moves tasks from
the auth.yml into accounts.yml and adjusts the docs to match.

This should alleviate confusion and allow deployers to fine-tune
their Ansible playbook runs.

Change-Id: I962014ba9022dd256dc04da6b4ac0860797fbc24
2017-05-20 13:37:16 -05:00

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---id: V-71909 status: opt-in tag: accounts ---

The password quality requirements from the STIG are examples of good security practice, but deployers are strongly encouraged to use centralized authentication for administrative server access whenever possible.

Password quality requirements are controlled by two Ansible variables: one for each individual password requirement and one "master switch" variable. The master switch variable controls all password requirements and it is disabled by default.

Deployers can enable all password quality requirements by setting the master switch variable to yes:

security_pwquality_apply_rules: yes

When the master switch variable is enabled, each individual password quality requirement can be disabled by a variable. To disable the fix for this STIG control, set the following Ansible variable:

security_pwquality_require_special: no