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Auditing must be implemented.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-811 GEN002660 SV-27270r1_rule ECAR-1 ECAR-2 ECAR-3 Medium
Description
Without auditing, individual system accesses cannot be tracked and malicious activity cannot be detected and traced back to an individual account.
STIG Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2016-06-01

Details

Check Text ( C-28350r1_chk )
Determine if auditing is enabled.
# ps -ef |grep auditd
If the auditd process is not found, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-24516r1_fix)
Start the auditd service and set it to start on boot.
# service auditd start ; chkconfig auditd on