PHTN-40-000014 The Photon operating system must configure auditd to log to disk.

Information

Without establishing what type of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

Audit record content must be shipped to a central location, but it must also be logged locally.

Solution

Navigate to and open:

/etc/audit/auditd.conf

Ensure the "write_logs" line is uncommented and set to the following:

write_logs = yes

At the command line, run the following command:

# pkill -SIGHUP auditd

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_8-0_Y24M08_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-3, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000130, Rule-ID|SV-258807r958412_rule, STIG-ID|PHTN-40-000014, Vuln-ID|V-258807

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 67888772ca092aff27c616f98952f8b8dba58fee7780e7a93f8ac70424b2991c