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V-269544CAT II — Medium severitySV-269544r1050427_rule

AlmaLinux OS 9 audit system must protect logon UIDs from unauthorized change.

Rule version ALMA-09-056780 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-25

Discussion

If modification of login user identifiers (UIDs) is not prevented, they can be changed by nonprivileged users and make auditing complicated or impossible.

Check

Verify the audit system prevents unauthorized changes to logon UIDs with the following command:

$ grep immutable /etc/audit/audit.rules

--loginuid-immutable

If the "--loginuid-immutable" option is not returned in the "/etc/audit/audit.rules", or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure AlmaLinux OS 9 auditing to prevent modification of login UIDs once they are set by adding the following line to /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules:

--loginuid-immutable

Identifiers

Group ID
V-269544
Group title
SRG-OS-000058-GPOS-00028
Rule ID
SV-269544r1050427_rule
Check ID
C-73575r1049008_chk
Fix ID
F-73476r1049960_fix