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

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-217938	RHEL-06-000133	SV-217938r505923_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	2020-09-03

Details

Check Text ( C-19419r376829_chk )

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" and typically all appear in "/var/log". To see the owner of a given log file, run the following command: $ ls -l [LOGFILE] Some log files referenced in /etc/rsyslog.conf may be created by other programs and may require exclusion from consideration. If the owner is not root, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-19417r376830_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]