V-238286

Discussion

Without generating audit records that are 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. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter). Satisfies: SRG-OS-000064-GPOS-00033, SRG-OS-000470-GPOS-00214, SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218

Check Content

Verify the Ubuntu operating system generates an audit record upon successful/unsuccessful modifications to the "faillog" file. 
 
Check the currently configured audit rules with the following command: 
 
$ sudo auditctl -l | grep faillog 
 
-w /var/log/faillog -p wa -k logins 
 
If the command does not return a line that matches the example or the line is commented out, this is a finding. 
 
Note: The "-k" allows for specifying an arbitrary identifier, and the string after it does not need to match the example output above.