V-239577

Discussion

When SLES for vRealize accounts are disabled, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual users or for identifying the SLES for vRealize processes themselves. In order to detect and respond to events affecting user accessibility and system processing, SLES for vRealize must audit account disabling actions and, as required, notify the appropriate individuals so they can investigate the event. Such a capability greatly reduces the risk that SLES for vRealize accessibility will be negatively affected for extended periods of time and provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes. To address access requirements, many SLES for vRealize systems can be integrated with enterprise-level authentication/access/auditing mechanisms that meet or exceed access control policy requirements.

Check Content

Determine if execution of the "passwd" executable is audited: 

# auditctl -l | grep watch=/usr/bin/passwd 

If "/usr/bin/passwd" is not listed with a permissions filter of at least "x", this is a finding.