SLEM 5 must generate audit records for all uses of the "passwd" command.

Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information.

At a minimum, the organization must audit the full-text recording of privileged commands. The organization must maintain audit trails in sufficient detail to reconstruct events to determine the cause and impact of compromise.

Verify SLEM 5 generates an audit record for all uses of the "passwd" command with the following command:

     > sudo auditctl -l | grep -w '/usr/bin/passwd'
     -a always,exit -S all -F path=/usr/bin/passwd -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=-1 -F key=privileged-passwd

If the command does not return any output, this is a finding.

Note: The "key=" value is arbitrary and can be different from the example output above.

Configure SLEM 5 to generate an audit record for all uses of the "passwd" command.

Add or modify the following line in the "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules" file:

-a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/passwd -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged-passwd

To reload the rules file, restart the audit daemon:

     > sudo systemctl restart auditd.service

or issue the following command:

     > sudo augenrules --load