The audit system must be configured to audit all administrative, privileged, and security actions.

From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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

Associated with: CCI-000347

SV-48474r1_rule The audit system must be configured to audit all administrative, privileged, and security actions.

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If the system is not configured to audit certain activities and write them to an audit log, it is more difficult to detect and track system compromises and damages incurred during a system compromise.

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The use of audit keys consistent with the provided example is encouraged to provide for uniform audit logs, however omitting the audit key or using an alternate audit key is not a finding. Procedure: Add the following lines to the audit.rules file to enable auditing of administrative, privileged, and security actions: -w /etc/audit/audit.rules Restart the auditd service. # service auditd restart

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