The TOSS 5 audit system must audit local events.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-282439TOSS-05-000399SV-282439r1200297_ruleCCI-000169medium
Description
Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. If option "local_events" isn't set to "yes", only events from network will be aggregated.
STIGDate
Tri-Lab Operating System Stack (TOSS) 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-04-01

Details

Check Text (C-282439r1200297_chk)

Verify the TOSS 5 audit system is configured to audit local events using the following command: $ sudo grep local_events /etc/audit/auditd.conf local_events = yes If "local_events" is not set to "yes", if the command does not return a line, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-86905r1200296_fix)

Configure TOSS 5 to generate audit records for local events by adding or updating the following line in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf": local_events = yes Restart the audit daemon for the changes to take effect.