Selecting an alternate value for a compliance rule value is called value tailoring. Value tailoring enables you to more finely tune your tailoring. Instead of removing a rule that does not reflect your site security requirements, you can set the rule's variable value to a value that reflects site policy. For example, you might modify the rule for password length to check for a password length of 13 characters rather than 8, or for a service that is enabled rather than disabled as in the default configuration.
You can display variable values and change them from the command line as shown in Example 8, Creating a Tailoring That Checks for a Password Length of 13, or from the pick screen of the curses editor, as described in How to Create a Tailoring From a Compliance Benchmark.