The Photon operating system audit log must attempt to log audit failures to syslog.

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected.

At the command line, run the following command:

# grep -E "^disk_full_action|^disk_error_action|^admin_space_left_action" /etc/audit/auditd.conf

If any of the above parameters are not set to "SYSLOG" or are missing, this is a finding.

Navigate to and open:

/etc/audit/auditd.conf

Ensure the following lines are present, not duplicated, and not commented:

disk_full_action = SYSLOG disk_error_action = SYSLOG admin_space_left_action = SYSLOG

At the command line, run the following commands:

# killproc auditd -TERM
# systemctl start auditd