AIX must start audit at boot.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-91463	AIX7-00-002023	SV-101561r1_rule		Medium

Description
If auditing is enabled late in the start-up process, the actions of some start-up processes may not be audited. Some audit systems also maintain state information only available if auditing is enabled before a given process is created.

STIG	Date
IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide	2020-02-24

Details

Check Text ( C-90617r3_chk )
Check if /etc/rc contains the following line: /usr/sbin/audit start # grep "audit start" /etc/rc /usr/sbin/audit start If a result is not returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-97661r1_fix)
To start auditing at system startup, add the following line to the /etc/rc file, just prior to the line reading dspmsg rc.cat 5 'Multi-user initialization completed': /usr/sbin/audit start Symmetrically add the '/usr/sbin/audit shutdown' command to /etc/rc.shutdown.