Password Lockout Duration and Policy on Aria Operations for Logs

Products

• VMware

Issue/Introduction

You want to know the current password policy details and modification locations for lockout duration, minimum length, and history settings.

Environment

Aria Operations 8.18.x

Resolution

To manage or alter the local account security policies, connect to the Aria Operations for Logs appliance via SSH as the root user and perform the following configuration updates.  These are example of configuration that can be found in the '/etc/security' directory.

• Account Lockout Settings
  To configure the number of failed login attempts and the corresponding lockout duration, modify the configuration parameters inside the following path:

/etc/security/faillock.conf

• Password Quality and Minimum Length
  To adjust requirements regarding password complexity or minimum length thresholds, update the directives inside the following file:
  
  /etc/security/pwquality.conf

For an overview of architectural password management standards, review the Information Security and Access Control Design Document

Note: Any customized system settings will revert to default during the upgrade.