The system must log successful and unsuccessful access to the root account.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
GEN001060-ESXI5-PNF	GEN001060-ESXI5-PNF	GEN001060-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
If successful and unsuccessful logins and logouts are not monitored or recorded, access attempts cannot be tracked. Without this logging, it may be impossible to track unauthorized access to the system. Permanent not a finding - Logging of Shell authentication success and failure is the default configuration and is not configurable. Note that this check also somewhat duplicates GEN000440 function.

Description

If successful and unsuccessful logins and logouts are not monitored or recorded, access attempts cannot be tracked. Without this logging, it may be impossible to track unauthorized access to the system. Permanent not a finding - Logging of Shell authentication success and failure is the default configuration and is not configurable. Note that this check also somewhat duplicates GEN000440 function.

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-GEN001060-ESXI5-PNF_chk )
ESXi supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-GEN001060-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.