STIGUI
V-271572CAT II — Medium severitySV-271572r1092562_rule

OL 9 must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /var/log/tallylog.

Rule version OL09-00-000725 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

Without generating audit records specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000470-GPOS-00214, SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218

Check

Verify that OL 9 generates audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /var/log/tallylog with the following command:

$ sudo auditctl -l | grep /var/log/tallylog -w /var/log/tallylog -p wa -k logins

If the command does not return a line or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure OL 9 to generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /var/log/tallylog.

Add or update the following file system rule to "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules":

-w /var/log/tallylog -p wa -k logins

The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Restart auditd: $ sudo service auditd restart

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271572
Group title
SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172
Rule ID
SV-271572r1092562_rule
Check ID
C-75622r1091426_chk
Fix ID
F-75529r1092561_fix