Auditing must be implemented.

From AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Associated with IA controls: ECAR-3, ECAR-2, ECAR-1

Associated with: CCI-000169

SV-38946r1_rule Auditing must be implemented.

Vulnerability discussion

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

Check content

Determine if auditing is enabled. # /usr/sbin/audit query | head -1 If the response Auditing On is not returned, this is a finding.

Fix text

Use SMIT or command line to enable auditing on the system. #audit start Additionally, make sure auditing subsystem starts on system startup. #mkitab -i cron "audit:2:once:/usr/sbin/audit start 2>&1 > /dev/console"

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