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Successful and unsuccessful logins and logouts must be logged.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-765 GEN000440 SV-38935r1_rule ECAR-1 ECAR-2 ECAR-3 Medium
Description
Monitoring and recording successful and unsuccessful logins assists in tracking unauthorized access to the system. Without this logging, the ability to track unauthorized activity to specific user accounts may be diminished.
STIG Date
Draft AIX Security Technical Implementation Guide 2011-08-17

Details

Check Text ( C-27993r1_chk )
Check the system logs for successful and unsuccessful logins. If these events are not present in the logs, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-31630r1_fix)
Edit /etc/syslog.conf and add local log destinations for auth.* or both auth.notice and auth.info.

“auth.info /var/log/authlog”

Verify service startup scripts for syslog and utmp (if present) are enabled.

# vi /etc/rc.tcpip
Check the syslogd service is not commented out.

Refresh syslogd
#refresh –s syslogd