On 9/5/13 2:26 PM, Paul Tittle (Contractor) wrote:
Using deny_password_attempts as an example, it says:

Add the following lines immediately below the pam_unix.so statement in AUTH section of /etc/pam.d/system-auth:

auth [default=die] pam_faillock.so authfail deny=3 unlock_time=604800 fail_interval=900
auth required pam_faillock.so authsucc deny=3 unlock_time=604800 fail_interval=900

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Looking at input/checks/accounts_passwords_pam_faillock_deny.xml , accounts_passwords_pam_faillock_deny seems to test for the bottom line in /etc/pam.d/system-auth and the top line in /etc/pam.d/password-auth, but password-auth is not mentioned in the deny_password_attempts description.

For the other two deny_password_attempts tests, it's a similar situation. Is the test wrong or the description wrong?

Thanks for reporting this -- and even more so for providing the actual XCCDF and OVAL names!

These lines should likely be in both system-auth and password-auth. For example, on a stock RHEL6 image, SSH will use password-auth (not system-auth) as defined in /etc/pam.d/sshd:
#%PAM-1.0
auth       required     pam_sepermit.so
auth       include      password-auth
account    required     pam_nologin.so
account    include      password-auth
password   include      password-auth
# pam_selinux.so close should be the first session rule
session    required     pam_selinux.so close
session    required     pam_loginuid.so
# pam_selinux.so open should only be followed by sessions to be executed in the user context
session    required     pam_selinux.so open env_params
session    optional     pam_keyinit.so force revoke
session    include      password-auth

Looks like we might have to update both prose and OVAL for this...