The Photon operating system must configure auditd to log to disk.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-258807	PHTN-40-000014	SV-258807r933482_rule		Medium

Description
Without establishing what type of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit record content must be shipped to a central location, but it must also be logged locally.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-10-29

Details

Check Text ( C-62547r933480_chk )
At the command line, run the following command to verify auditd is configured to write logs to disk: # grep '^write_logs' /etc/audit/auditd.conf Example result: write_logs = yes If there is no output, this is not a finding. If "write_logs" exists and is not configured to "yes", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62456r933481_fix)
Navigate to and open: /etc/audit/auditd.conf Ensure the "write_logs" line is uncommented and set to the following: write_logs = yes At the command line, run the following command: # pkill -SIGHUP auditd