The operating system must support the requirement to automatically audit on account creation.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000004-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000004-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000004-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Auditing of account creation is a method and best practice for mitigating the risk of an attacker creating a persistent method of re-establishing access. A comprehensive account management process will ensure an audit trail which documents the creation of accounts and if required notifies administrators. Such a process greatly reduces the risk of accounts being created outside the normal approval process and provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes. Additionally, the audit records of account creation can be compared to the known approved account creation list. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. All accounts are privileged accounts. Auditing is turned on by default, as is logging. Syslog is the best way to ensure all access is logged. Access is limited to privileged roles only. In lockdown mode (required), only the vpxuser proxy has access.

Description

Auditing of account creation is a method and best practice for mitigating the risk of an attacker creating a persistent method of re-establishing access. A comprehensive account management process will ensure an audit trail which documents the creation of accounts and if required notifies administrators. Such a process greatly reduces the risk of accounts being created outside the normal approval process and provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes. Additionally, the audit records of account creation can be compared to the known approved account creation list. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. All accounts are privileged accounts. Auditing is turned on by default, as is logging. Syslog is the best way to ensure all access is logged. Access is limited to privileged roles only. In lockdown mode (required), only the vpxuser proxy has access.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000004-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-SRG-OS-000004-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.