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os_password_proximity_disable Disable Proximity Based Password Sharing Requests

NIST macOS Security Compliance Project Sequoia Guidance, Revision 4.0 (be5491f)
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Title

Disable Proximity Based Password Sharing Requests

Control

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS
$.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.applicationaccess')\
.objectForKey('allowPasswordProximityRequests').js
EOS

Discussion

Proximity based password sharing requests _MUST_ be disabled.

The default behavior of macOS is to allow users to request passwords from other known devices (macOS and iOS). This feature _MUST_ be disabled to prevent passwords from being shared.

Related controls

ia-5

Fix

This is implemented by a Configuration Profile.