PHTN-30-000045 - The Photon operating system must audit all account removal actions.

Information

When operating system accounts are removed, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are used for identifying individual users or operating system processes. To detect and respond to events affecting user accessibility and system processing, operating systems must audit account removal actions.

Solution

Navigate to and open:

/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.STIG.rules

Add the following lines:

-w /usr/sbin/userdel -p x -k userdel
-w /usr/sbin/groupdel -p x -k groupdel

At the command line, run the following command to load the new audit rules:

# /sbin/augenrules --load

Note: A new 'audit.STIG.rules' file is provided for placement in '/etc/audit/rules.d' that contains all rules needed for auditd.

Note: An older 'audit.STIG.rules' may exist if the file exists and references older 'GEN' SRG IDs. This file can be removed and replaced as necessary with an updated one.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_7-0_Y24M01_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-2(4), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001405, Rule-ID|SV-256520r887234_rule, STIG-ID|PHTN-30-000045, Vuln-ID|V-256520

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: ffd89fa9bc968a4a2e3ef9d855efbcc7278e385db98a1da7219af1e215dcf523