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Accounts (faillock): 3 controls for Linux hardening

Pavois audits 3 controls in the Accounts (faillock) hardening domain, across 9 systems and 5 standards (CIS, ANSSI BP-028, NIST 800-53, PCI DSS, DISA STIG). Every control declares the evidence it gathers, its severity, its remediation and its standard references.

The domain in figures

Controls3
Severities
medium 3
Evidence gathered
persistent config 3
Standards
CISANSSI BP-028NIST 800-53PCI DSSDISA STIG
Systems
Debian 12Debian 13FedoraRHEL 10 / Rocky 10 / AlmaLinux 10RHEL 8 / Rocky 8 / AlmaLinux 8RHEL 9 / Rocky 9 / AlmaLinux 9Ubuntu 22.04Ubuntu 24.04Ubuntu 26.04
Coverage depthin depth

What does Pavois check in this domain?

persistent config 3
Checked against the content of a persistent configuration file, the source of truth that survives reboots.

Which standards does this domain cover?

One effective-configuration check serves as evidence for several standards at once. The references below are the ones the corpus actually carries, never a claimed equivalence. how to read a standard mapping.

CIS
5.3.3.1.1, 5.3.3.1.2, 5.3.3.1.3, 8.3.4
ANSSI BP-028
R31
NIST 800-53
3.1.8, AC-7(a), AC-7(b), CM-6(a)
PCI DSS
8.3.4
DISA STIG
UBTU-22-411045, UBTU-24-200610

The 3 controls of the Accounts (faillock) domain

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