The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /etc/opasswd.

From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of SRG-OS-000004-GPOS-00004

Associated with: CCI-000018 CCI-000172 CCI-001403 CCI-002130

SV-87825r5_rule The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /etc/opasswd.

Vulnerability discussion

Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one.Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter).

Check content

Verify the operating system must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /etc/opasswd. Check the auditing rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules" with the following command: # grep /etc/security/opasswd /etc/audit/audit.rules -w /etc/security/opasswd -p wa -k identity If the command does not return a line, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix text

Configure the operating system to generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /etc/opasswd. Add or update the following file system rule in "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules": -w /etc/security/opasswd -p wa -k identity The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect: # systemctl restart auditd

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