The operating system must generate audit records for all successful/unsuccessful account access count events.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-72143	RHEL-07-030600	SV-86767r2_rule		Medium

Description

Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter). Satisfies: SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000470-GPOS-00214, SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2017-12-14

Details

Check Text ( C-72375r5_chk )
Verify the operating system generates audit records when successful/unsuccessful account access count events occur. Check the file system rule in "/etc/audit/audit.rules" with the following commands: # grep -i /var/log/tallylog /etc/audit/audit.rules -w /var/log/tallylog -p wa -k logins If the command does not return any output, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-78495r4_fix)
Configure the operating system to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful account access count events occur. Add or update the following rule in "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules": -w /var/log/tallylog -p wa -k logins The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.