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V-281099

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 10 must write audit records to disk.

Rule ID

SV-281099r1165652_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000163

Discussion

Audit data must be synchronously written to disk to ensure log integrity. This setting ensures that all audit event data is written to disk.

Check Content

Verify the RHEL 10 audit system is configured to write logs to the disk with the following command:

$ sudo grep write_logs /etc/audit/auditd.conf
write_logs = yes

If "write_logs" does not have a value of "yes", the line is commented out, or the line is missing, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the RHEL 10 audit system to write log files to the disk.

Edit the "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" file and add or update the "write_logs" option to "yes":

write_logs = yes

Restart the audit daemon with the following command for changes to take effect:

$ sudo service auditd restart