STIGUI
V-256495CAT II — Medium severitySV-256495r958438_rule

The Photon operating system audit log must be group-owned by root.

Rule version PHTN-30-000018 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-31

Discussion

Audit information includes all information (e.g., audit records, audit settings, audit reports) needed to successfully audit operating system activity.

Unauthorized disclosure of audit records can reveal system and configuration data to attackers, thus compromising its confidentiality.

Check

At the command line, run the following command:

# (audit_log_file=$(grep "^log_file" /etc/audit/auditd.conf|sed s/^[^\/]*//) && if [ -f "${audit_log_file}" ] ; then printf "Log(s) found in "${audit_log_file%/*}":\n"; stat -c "%n is group owned by %G" ${audit_log_file%}*; else printf "audit log file(s) not found\n"; fi)

If any audit log file is not group owned by root, this is a finding.

Fix

At the command line, run the following command:

#  chown root:root <audit log file>

Replace <audit log file> with the log files not group owned by root.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-256495
Group title
SRG-OS-000059-GPOS-00029
Rule ID
SV-256495r958438_rule
Check ID
C-60170r887157_chk
Fix ID
F-60113r887158_fix