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ansible-hardening/doc/metadata/rhel7/V-71913.rst
Major Hayden dccce1d5cc Handle RHEL 7 STIG renumbering
This patch gets the docs adjusted to work with the new RHEL 7 STIG
version 1 release. The new STIG release has changed all of the
numbering, but it maintains a link to (most) of the old STIG IDs in
the XML.

Closes-bug: 1676865
Change-Id: I65023fe63163c9804a3aec9dcdbf23c69bedb604
2017-04-04 07:22:12 -05:00

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---
id: V-71913
status: opt-in
tag: auth
---
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