STIGUI
V-216270CAT III — Low severitySV-216270r959010_rule

The auditing system must not define a different auditing level for specific users.

Rule version SOL-11.1-010360 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

Without auditing, individual system accesses cannot be tracked, and malicious activity cannot be detected and traced back to an individual account.

Check

This check applies to the global zone only. Determine the zone that you are currently securing.

# zonename

If the command output is "global", this check applies.

For each user on the system (not including root), check to see if special auditing flag configurations are set.

# userattr audit_flags [username]

If any flags are returned, this is a finding.

Fix

The root role is required.

This action applies to the global zone only. Determine the zone that you are currently securing.

# zonename

If the command output is "global", this action applies.

For each user on the system, remove all special audit configuration flags.

# usermod -K audit_flags= [username]

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216270
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216270r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17506r370898_chk
Fix ID
F-17504r370899_fix