The audit system must identify staff members to receive notifications of audit log storage volume capacity issues.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-38680	RHEL-06-000313	SV-50481r1_rule		Medium

Description
Email sent to the root account is typically aliased to the administrators of the system, who can take appropriate action.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2015-05-26

Details

Check Text ( C-46241r1_chk )
Inspect "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" and locate the following line to determine if the system is configured to send email to an account when it needs to notify an administrator: action_mail_acct = root If auditd is not configured to send emails per identified actions, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-43629r1_fix)
The "auditd" service can be configured to send email to a designated account in certain situations. Add or correct the following line in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" to ensure that administrators are notified via email for those situations: action_mail_acct = root