The Photon operating system must enable the auditd service.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-258808	PHTN-40-000016	SV-258808r933485_rule		Medium

Description

Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. To that end, the auditd service must be configured to start automatically and be running at all times. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000039-GPOS-00017, SRG-OS-000040-GPOS-00018, SRG-OS-000041-GPOS-00019, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00021, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000255-GPOS-00096, SRG-OS-000363-GPOS-00150, SRG-OS-000365-GPOS-00152, SRG-OS-000446-GPOS-00200

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

Details

Check Text ( C-62548r933483_chk )
At the command line, run the following command to verify auditd is enabled and running: # systemctl status auditd If the service is not enabled and running, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62457r933484_fix)
At the command line, run the following commands: # systemctl enable auditd # systemctl start auditd