RHEL 9 must write audit records to disk.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
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| medium | V-258170 | SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227 | RHEL-09-653105 | SV-258170r991589_rule | 2025-02-27 | 2 |
| Description |
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| Audit data should be synchronously written to disk to ensure log integrity. This setting assures that all audit event data is written disk. |
| ℹ️ Check |
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| Verify that the audit system is configured to write logs to the disk with the following command: $ sudo grep write_logs /etc/audit/auditd.conf write_logs = yes If "write_logs" does not have a value of "yes", the line is commented out, or the line is missing, this is a finding. |
| ✔️ Fix |
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| Configure the audit system to write log files to the disk. Edit the /etc/audit/auditd.conf file and add or update the "write_logs" option to "yes": write_logs = yes The audit daemon must be restarted for changes to take effect. |