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Set Password Reuse Prevention Policy for an AWS Account

This job sets password reuse prevention policy for an AWS Account. The number of passwords to remember per user will be set to 24.

Applicable Rule

Rule ID:

5c8c26107a550e1fb6560bfc

Rule Name:

IAM password policy should prevent password reuse

Getting Started

Prerequisites

The provided AWS credential must have access to iam:UpdateAccountPasswordPolicy.

You may find the latest example policy file here

Running the script

You may run this script using following commands:

  pip install -r ../../requirements.txt
  python3 aws_iam_password_reuse_prevention.py

Running the tests

You may run test using following command under vss-remediation-worker-job-code-python directory:

    python3 -m pytest test

Deployment

  1. Provision a Virtual Machine Create an EC2 instance to use for the worker. The minimum required specifications are 128 MB memory and 1/2 Core CPU.
  2. Setup Docker Install Docker on the newly provisioned EC2 instance. You can refer to the docs here for more information.
  3. Deploy the worker image SSH into the EC2 instance and run the command below to deploy the worker image:
  docker run --rm -it --name worker \
  -e VSS_CLIENT_ID={ENTER CLIENT ID}
  -e VSS_CLIENT_SECRET={ENTER CLIENT SECRET} \
  vmware/vss-remediation-worker:latest-python

Contributing

The VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds team welcomes welcomes contributions from the community. If you wish to contribute code and you have not signed our contributor license agreement (CLA), our bot will update the issue when you open a Pull Request. For any questions about the CLA process, please refer to our FAQ. All contributions to this repository must be signed as described on that page. Your signature certifies that you wrote the patch or have the right to pass it on as an open-source patch.

For more detailed information, refer to CONTRIBUTING.md.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

  • VMware VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds - Initial work

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License - see the LICENSE file for details