The operating system must audit any use of privileged accounts, or roles, with access to organization-defined security functions or security-relevant information, when accessing other system functions.

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The operating system must audit any use of privileged accounts, or roles, with access to organization-defined security functions or security-relevant information, when accessing other system functions.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-51443	OSX8-00-00170	SV-65653r1_rule		Medium

Description
The auditing system must be configured to audit authentication and authorization events.

STIG	Date
Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG	2015-02-10

Details

Check Text ( C-53779r2_chk )
In order to view the currently configured flags for the audit daemon, run the following command: sudo grep ^flags /etc/security/audit_control \| sed 's/flags://' \| tr "," "\n" \| grep aa The authentication events are logged via the "aa" flag. If "aa" is not listed in the result of the check, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-56241r1_fix)
To make sure the appropriate flags are enabled for auditing, run the following command: sudo sed -i.bak '/^flags/ s/$/,aa/' /etc/security/audit_control