STIGUI
V-271586CAT II — Medium severitySV-271586r1092576_rule

OL 9 audit system must audit local events.

Rule version OL09-00-000800 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

If option "local_events" isn't set to "yes" only events from network will be aggregated.

Check

Verify that OL 9 audit system is configured to audit local events with the following command:

$ sudo grep local_events /etc/audit/auditd.conf local_events = yes

If "local_events" isn't set to "yes", 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 local events by adding or updating the following line in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf":

local_events = yes

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

Restart auditd: $ sudo service auditd restart

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271586
Group title
SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031
Rule ID
SV-271586r1092576_rule
Check ID
C-75636r1091468_chk
Fix ID
F-75543r1092575_fix