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V-256522

CAT II (Medium)

The Photon operating system audit files and directories must have correct permissions.

Rule ID

SV-256522r991557_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R4

CCIs

CCI-001493

Discussion

Protecting audit information includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operations on audit information.

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command:

# stat -c "%n is owned by %U and group owned by %G" /etc/audit/auditd.conf

If "auditd.conf" is not owned by root and group owned by root, this is a finding.

Fix Text

At the command line, run the following command:

# chown root:root /etc/audit/auditd.conf