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Check: RHEL-09-653105

RHEL 9 STIG: RHEL-09-653105 (in versions v1 r3 through v1 r1)

Title

RHEL 9 must write audit records to disk. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Audit data should be synchronously written to disk to ensure log integrity. This setting assures that all audit event data is written disk.

Check Content

Verify that the audit system is configured to write logs to the disk with the following command: $ sudo grep write_logs /etc/audit/auditd.conf write_logs = yes If "write_logs" does not have a value of "yes", the line is commented out, or the line is missing, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the audit system to write log files to the disk. Edit the /etc/audit/auditd.conf file and add or update the "write_logs" option to "yes": write_logs = yes The audit daemon must be restarted for changes to take effect.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-258170r926497_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-258170

Group Title: SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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CCIs

CCIs tied to check.

Number	Definition
CCI-000366	The organization implements the security configuration settings.

Controls

Controls tied to check. These are derived from the CCIs shown above.

Number	Title
CM-6	Configuration Settings