Successful and unsuccessful logins and logouts must be logged.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-765	GEN000440	SV-27082r1_rule	ECAR-2 ECAR-3 ECAR-1	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
HP-UX 11.23 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2015-12-02

Details

Check Text ( C-27995r1_chk )
List the logged successful logons to determine if successful logons are being logged. # last -R | more List the logged unsuccessful logons to determine if unsuccessful logons are being logged. # lastb -R | more If logs do not contain successful and unsuccessful logins, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-31505r1_fix)
Verify that login logs are handled correctly in the /etc/syslog.conf file. Verify that service startup scripts for syslog and (w/b)tmp (if present) are enabled. NOTE: Also examine the syslog.conf file for any references to remote log hosts if last/lastb produce no results. # cat /etc/syslog.conf | tr '\011' ' ' | tr -s ' ' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | grep -v '^#' | grep "\@"