The Photon operating system must initiate auditing as part of the boot process.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-239119	PHTN-67-000048	SV-239119r675165_rule		Medium

Description
Each process on the system carries an "auditable" flag, which indicates whether its activities can be audited. Although auditd takes care of enabling this for all processes that launch after it starts, adding the kernel argument ensures the flag is set at boot for every process on the system. This includes processes created before auditd starts.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere 6.7 Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide	2021-04-15

Details

Check Text ( C-42330r675163_chk )
At the command line, execute the following command: # grep "audit=1" /proc/cmdline If no results are returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-42289r675164_fix)
Open /boot/grub2/grub.cfg with a text editor and locate the boot command line arguments. An example follows: linux "/"$photon_linux root=$rootpartition net.ifnames=0 $photon_cmdline coredump_filter=0x37 consoleblank=0 Add "audit=1" to the end of the line so it reads as follows: linux "/"$photon_linux root=$rootpartition net.ifnames=0 $photon_cmdline coredump_filter=0x37 consoleblank=0 audit=1 Note: Do not copy/paste in this example argument line. This may change in future releases. Find the similar line and append "audit=1" to it. Reboot the system for the change to take effect.

Fix Text (F-42289r675164_fix)

Open /boot/grub2/grub.cfg with a text editor and locate the boot command line arguments. An example follows:

linux "/"$photon_linux root=$rootpartition net.ifnames=0 $photon_cmdline coredump_filter=0x37 consoleblank=0

Add "audit=1" to the end of the line so it reads as follows:

linux "/"$photon_linux root=$rootpartition net.ifnames=0 $photon_cmdline coredump_filter=0x37 consoleblank=0 audit=1

Note: Do not copy/paste in this example argument line. This may change in future releases. Find the similar line and append "audit=1" to it.

Reboot the system for the change to take effect.