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V-258224

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 9 must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /var/log/faillock.

Rule ID

SV-258224r1014988_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R8

CCIs

CCI-000172 CCI-002884

Discussion

Without generating audit records specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000470-GPOS-00214, SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218

Check Content

Verify RHEL 9 generates audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/var/log/faillock" with the following command:

$ sudo auditctl -l | grep /var/log/faillock

-w /var/log/faillock -p wa -k logins

If the command does not return a line, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 9 to generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/var/log/faillock".

Add or update the following file system rule to "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules":

-w /var/log/faillock -p wa -k logins

The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

$ sudo service auditd restart