All rsyslog-generated log files must be owned by root.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
RHEL-06-000133	RHEL-06-000133	RHEL-06-000133_rule		Medium

Description
The log files generated by rsyslog contain valuable information regarding system configuration, user authentication, and other such information. Log files should be protected from unauthorized access.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-02-05

Details

Check Text ( C-RHEL-06-000133_chk )
To see the owner of a given log file, run the following command: $ ls -l [LOGFILE] If the owner is not root, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-RHEL-06-000133_fix)
The owner of all log files written by "rsyslog" should be root. These log files are determined by the second part of each Rule line in "/etc/rsyslog.conf" typically all appear in "/var/log". For each log file [LOGFILE] referenced in "/etc/rsyslog.conf", run the following command to inspect the file's owner: $ ls -l [LOGFILE] If the owner is not "root", run the following command to correct this: # chown root [LOGFILE]

Fix Text (F-RHEL-06-000133_fix)

The owner of all log files written by "rsyslog" should be root. These log files are determined by the second part of each Rule line in "/etc/rsyslog.conf" typically all appear in "/var/log". For each log file [LOGFILE] referenced in "/etc/rsyslog.conf", run the following command to inspect the file's owner:

$ ls -l [LOGFILE]

If the owner is not "root", run the following command to correct this:

# chown root [LOGFILE]