The operating system must associate the identity of the information producer with the information.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000208-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000208-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000208-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Non-repudiation supports audit requirements to provide the appropriate organizational officials the means to identify who produced specific information in the event of an information transfer. Permanent not a finding - There is only 1 local account on ESXi-v5 (root). All other accounts are Active Directory. The root account is locked out in Lockdown Mode (a requirement). Auditing is addressed and not configurable. The vpxuser proxy account on vCenter maintains id association for identifying the individual performing maintenance/configuration.

Description

Non-repudiation supports audit requirements to provide the appropriate organizational officials the means to identify who produced specific information in the event of an information transfer. Permanent not a finding - There is only 1 local account on ESXi-v5 (root). All other accounts are Active Directory. The root account is locked out in Lockdown Mode (a requirement). Auditing is addressed and not configurable. The vpxuser proxy account on vCenter maintains id association for identifying the individual performing maintenance/configuration.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000208-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-000208-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.