Information
The operating system must audit all uses of the passwd command.
Rationale:
Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information.
At a minimum, the organization must audit the full-text recording of privileged password commands. The organization must maintain audit trails in sufficient detail to reconstruct events to determine the cause and impact of compromise.
Solution
Configure the operating system to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the passwd command occur.
Add or update the following rule in /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules:
Example: vim /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules
Add, update or uncomment this line below
-a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/passwd -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged-passwd
The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
# service auditd restart