STIGUI
V-268468CAT II — Medium severitySV-268468r1034344_rule

The macOS system must configure audit capacity warning.

Rule version APPL-15-001030 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

The audit service must be configured to notify the system administrator when the amount of free disk space remaining reaches an organization-defined value.

This rule ensures that the system administrator is notified in advance that action is required to free up more disk space for audit logs.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022, SRG-OS-000343-GPOS-00134

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to require a minimum of 25 percent free disk space for audit record storage with the following command:

/usr/bin/awk -F: '/^minfree/{print $2}' /etc/security/audit_control

If the result is not "25", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to require a minimum of 25 percent free disk space for audit record storage with the following command:

/usr/bin/sed -i.bak 's/.*minfree.*/minfree:25/' /etc/security/audit_control; /usr/sbin/audit -s

Identifiers

Group ID
V-268468
Group title
SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022
Rule ID
SV-268468r1034344_rule
Check ID
C-72498r1034342_chk
Fix ID
F-72399r1034343_fix