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V-281105

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 10 must label all off-loaded audit logs before sending them to the central log server.

Rule ID

SV-281105r1166267_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000132 CCI-001851

Discussion

Enriched logging is needed to determine who, what, and when events occur on a system. Without this, determining root cause of an event will be much more difficult. When audit logs are not labeled before they are sent to a central log server, the audit data will not be able to be analyzed and tied back to the correct system. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000039-GPOS-00017, SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133, SRG-OS-000479-GPOS-00224

Check Content

Verify the RHEL 10 audit daemon is configured to label all off-loaded audit logs with the following command:

$ sudo grep name_format /etc/audit/auditd.conf
name_format = hostname

If the "name_format" option is not "hostname", "fqd", or "numeric", or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 10 so that all off-loaded audit logs are labeled before sending them to the central log server.

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

name_format = hostname

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

$ sudo service auditd restart