The SLES for vRealize must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the system.

From VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.x SLES Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000172

SV-99377r1_rule The SLES for vRealize must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the system.

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).

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The message types that are always recorded to the "/var/log/audit/audit.log" file include "LOGIN", "USER_LOGIN", "USER_START", "USER_END" among others and do not need to be added to audit.rules. The log files "/var/log/faillog", "/var/log/lastlog", and "/var/log/tallylog" must be protected from tampering of the login records: # egrep "faillog|lastlog|tallylog" /etc/audit/audit.rules If "/var/log/faillog", "/var/log/lastlog", and "/var/log/tallylog" entries do not exist, this is a finding.

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Ensure the auditing of logins by modifying the "/etc/audit/audit.rules" file to contain: -w /var/log/faillog -p wa -w /var/log/lastlog -p wa -w /var/log/tallylog -p wa OR # /etc/dodscript.sh

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