RHEL 9 audit system must audit local events.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-258164	RHEL-09-653075	SV-258164r926479_rule		Medium

Description
Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. If option "local_events" isn't set to "yes" only events from network will be aggregated. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-12-01

Details

Check Text ( C-61905r926477_chk )
Verify that the RHEL 9 audit system is configured to audit local events with the following command: $ sudo grep local_events /etc/audit/auditd.conf local_events = yes If "local_events" isn't set to "yes", if the command does not return a line, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-61829r926478_fix)
Configure RHEL 9 to generate audit records for local events by adding or updating the following line in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf": local_events = yes The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.