Title

Audit log files must be owned by root. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

If non-privileged users can write to audit logs, audit trails can be modified or destroyed.

Check Content

Run the following command to check the owner of the system audit logs: grep "^log_file" /etc/audit/auditd.conf|sed s/^[^\/]*//|xargs stat -c %U:%n Audit logs must be owned by root. If they are not, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Change the owner of the audit log files with the following command: # chown root [audit_file]

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-218085r603264_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-218085

Group Title: SRG-OS-000057

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