The system must use a separate file system for the system audit data path.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-72063	RHEL-07-021330	SV-86687r4_rule		Low

Description
The use of separate file systems for different paths can protect the system from failures resulting from a file system becoming full or failing.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2017-07-08

Details

Check Text ( C-72295r8_chk )
Verify that a separate file system/partition has been created for the system audit data path. Check that a file system/partition has been created for the system audit data path with the following command: # grep /var/log/audit /etc/fstab UUID=3645951a /var/log/audit ext4 defaults 1 2 If a separate entry for /var/log/audit does not exist, ask the System Administrator (SA) if the system audit logs are being written to a different file system/partition on the system, then grep for that file system/partition. If a separate file system/partition does not exist for the system audit data path, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-72295r8_chk )

Verify that a separate file system/partition has been created for the system audit data path.

Check that a file system/partition has been created for the system audit data path with the following command:

# grep /var/log/audit /etc/fstab
UUID=3645951a /var/log/audit ext4 defaults 1 2

If a separate entry for /var/log/audit does not exist, ask the System Administrator (SA) if the system audit logs are being written to a different file system/partition on the system, then grep for that file system/partition.

If a separate file system/partition does not exist for the system audit data path, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-78415r1_fix)
Migrate the system audit data path onto a separate file system.