The audit system must be configured to audit all administrative, privileged, and security actions.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-29241	GEN002760-2	SV-48474r1_rule	ECAR-1 ECAR-2 ECAR-3	Medium

Description
If the system is not configured to audit certain activities and write them to an audit log, it is more difficult to detect and track system compromises and damages incurred during a system compromise.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-07-03

Details

Check Text ( C-36847r1_chk )
Check the auditing configuration of the system. Procedure: # cat /etc/audit/audit.rules \| grep -i "audit.rules" If no results are returned, or the line does not start with "-w", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-41610r1_fix)
The use of audit keys consistent with the provided example is encouraged to provide for uniform audit logs, however omitting the audit key or using an alternate audit key is not a finding. Procedure: Add the following lines to the audit.rules file to enable auditing of administrative, privileged, and security actions: -w /etc/audit/audit.rules Restart the auditd service. # service auditd restart

Fix Text (F-41610r1_fix)

The use of audit keys consistent with the provided example is encouraged to provide for uniform audit logs, however omitting the audit key or using an alternate audit key is not a finding.

Procedure:
Add the following lines to the audit.rules file to enable auditing of administrative, privileged, and security actions:

-w /etc/audit/audit.rules

Restart the auditd service.
# service auditd restart