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AlmaLinux OS 9 must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /var/log/tallylog.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-269467ALMA-09-046770SV-269467r1050350_ruleCCI-002884medium
Description
Without generating audit records specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter). When a user logs on, the auid is set to the uid of the account being authenticated. Daemons are not user sessions and have the loginuid set to -1. The auid representation is an unsigned 32-bit integer, which equals 4294967295. The audit system interprets -1, 4294967295, and "unset" in the same way. The system call rules are loaded into a matching engine that intercepts each system call made by all programs on the system. Therefore, it is very important to use system call rules only when absolutely necessary since these affect performance. The more rules, the bigger the performance hit. The performance can be helped, however, by combining system calls into one rule whenever possible. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000470-GPOS-00214, SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218
STIGDate
Cloud Linux AlmaLinux OS 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-02-27

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

MNT-05.1Auditing Remote Maintenance
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (20) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-17(1)Monitoring and Control
1.00
AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-6(9)Log Use of Privileged Functions
1.00
AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-12(3)Changes by Authorized Individuals
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00
AU-3(1)Additional Audit Information
1.00
AU-4Audit Log Storage Capacity
1.00

+10 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-002884
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-269467r1050350_chk)

Verify AlmaLinux OS 9 generates audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/var/log/tallylog" with the following command: $ grep /var/log/tallylog /etc/audit/audit.rules -w /var/log/tallylog -p wa -k logins If the command does not return a line or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-73399r1049770_fix)

Configure AlmaLinux OS 9 to generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/var/log/tallylog". Add the following to the "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules" file: -w /var/log/tallylog -p wa -k logins Merge the rules into /etc/audit/audit.rules: $ augenrules --load Reboot the server so the changes to take effect.