Audit log files must be owned by root.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
RHEL-06-000384A	RHEL-06-000384A	RHEL-06-000384A_rule		Medium

Description
If non-privileged users can write to audit logs, audit trails can be modified or destroyed.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-RHEL-06-000384A_chk )
Run the following command to check the owner of the system audit logs: grep "^log_file" /etc/audit/auditd.conf|sed s/^[^\/]*//|xargs stat -c %U:%n Audit logs must be owned by root. If they are not, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-RHEL-06-000384A_fix)
Change the owner of the audit log files with the following command: # chown root [audit_file]