AIX must start audit at boot.
Overview
| Finding ID | Version | Rule ID | IA Controls | Severity |
| V-215247 | AIX7-00-002023 | SV-215247r991555_rule | CCI-001464 | medium |
| Description | ||||
| If auditing is enabled late in the start-up process, the actions of some start-up processes may not be audited. Some audit systems also maintain state information only available if auditing is enabled before a given process is created. | ||||
| STIG | Date | |||
| IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide | 2024-08-16 | |||
Details
Check Text (C-215247r991555_chk)
Check if /etc/rc contains the following line:
/usr/sbin/audit start
# grep "audit start" /etc/rc
/usr/sbin/audit start
If a result is not returned, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-16443r294193_fix)
To start auditing at system startup, add the following line to the /etc/rc file, just prior to the line reading dspmsg rc.cat 5 'Multi-user initialization completed':
/usr/sbin/audit start
Symmetrically add the '/usr/sbin/audit shutdown' command to /etc/rc.shutdown.