ansible-hardening/doc/metadata/rhel7/V-71913.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-71913
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``:
.. code-block:: yaml
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:
.. code-block:: yaml
security_pwquality_require_character_classes_changed: no