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V-258807

CAT II (Medium)

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

Rule ID

SV-258807r933482_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000130

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.

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command to verify auditd is configured to write logs to disk:

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

Example result:

write_logs = yes

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

If "write_logs" exists and is not configured to "yes", 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:

# pkill -SIGHUP auditd