136 – Force temporary password change

Summary

The system must force the change of automatically generated temporary passwords after their first use.

Description

Temporary passwords are often harder to remember and shared over systems whose future integrity may not be guaranteed by the system that created them. Therefore, users should be forced to change them after their first use.

Supported In

Advanced: True

References

• NIST80063-6_1_1. Binding at enrollment
• MITRE-M1027. Password policies
• CMMC-IA_L2-3_5_9. Temporary passwords
• HITRUST-01_d. User password management
• IEC62443-IAC-1_7. Strength of password-based authentication
• NIST800171-5_9. Allow temporary password use for system logons with an immediate change to a permanent password
• SIG-H_3_1_8. Access control
• SIG-U_1_9_13. Server security

Last updated

2023/09/18