Password Requires Symbols

Owned by Saumitra Das
Oct 12, 2021
1 min read

Severity: Medium

Description: Ensures password policy requires the use of symbols

Remediation Steps:

Perform the following steps to apply the password policies on AWS :

Method 1 : Via AWS Console

  1. Login to AWS Console (with appropriate permissions to View Identity Access Management Account Settings)

  2. Go to IAM Service on the AWS Console

  3. Click on Account Settings on the Left Pane

  4. Click on Update Password Policy

  5. Check "Requires at least one non-alphanumeric character"

  6. Click "Apply password policy"

Method 2 : Via AWS Command Line Interface
Run a command : # aws iam update-account-password-policy --require-symbols
Note: All commands starting with "aws iam update-account-password-policy" can be combined into a single command.


For command usage refer: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/update-account-password-policy.html

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