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V-256487

CAT II (Medium)

The Photon operating system must configure auditd to log to disk.

Rule ID

SV-256487r958412_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R4

CCIs

CCI-000130 CCI-000132 CCI-000133 CCI-000134

Discussion

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. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000039-GPOS-00017, SRG-OS-000040-GPOS-00018, SRG-OS-000041-GPOS-00019

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command:

# grep "^write_logs" /etc/audit/auditd.conf

Expected result:

write_logs = yes

If there is no output, this is not a finding.

If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix Text

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:

# killproc auditd -TERM
# systemctl start auditd