STIGUI
V-281162CAT II — Medium severitySV-281162r1166438_rule

RHEL 10 must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/var/log/lastlog".

Rule version RHEL-10-500760 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-17

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-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215, SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218, SRG-OS-000470-GPOS-00214

Check

Verify RHEL 10 generates audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/var/log/lastlog" with the following command:

$ sudo auditctl -l | grep /var/log/lastlog -a always,exit -F arch=b32 -F path=/var/log/lastlog -F perm=wa -F key=logins -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -F path=/var/log/lastlog -F perm=wa -F key=logins

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

Fix

Configure RHEL 10 to generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/var/log/lastlog".

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

-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -F path=/var/log/lastlog -F perm=wa -F key=logins -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -F path=/var/log/lastlog -F perm=wa -F key=logins

Restart the audit daemon with the following command for the changes to take effect:

$ sudo service auditd restart

Identifiers

Group ID
V-281162
Group title
SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015
Rule ID
SV-281162r1166438_rule
Check ID
C-85723r1166436_chk
Fix ID
F-85628r1166437_fix