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Discussion

Logging must be started as soon as possible when a service starts and as late as possible when a service is stopped. Many forms of suspicious actions can be detected by analyzing logs for unexpected service starts and stops. Also, by starting to log immediately after a service starts, it becomes more difficult for suspicious activity to go unlogged. Satisfies: SRG-APP-000089-WSR-000047, SRG-APP-000092-WSR-000055

Check Content

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# grep "1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler" /usr/lib/vmware-sso/vmware-sts/conf/logging.properties

Expected result:

handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler
.handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler
1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE
1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs/tomcat
1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = catalina.
1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.bufferSize = -1
1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.formatter = java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter
1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.maxDays = 10
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler

If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.