The system must forward audit records to the syslog service.

From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000136

SV-50271r1_rule The system must forward audit records to the syslog service.

Vulnerability discussion

The auditd service does not include the ability to send audit records to a centralized server for management directly. It does, however, include an audit event multiplexor plugin (audispd) to pass audit records to the local syslog server.

Check content

Verify the audispd plugin is active: # grep active /etc/audisp/plugins.d/syslog.conf If the "active" setting is missing or set to "no", this is a finding.

Fix text

Set the "active" line in "/etc/audisp/plugins.d/syslog.conf" to "yes". Restart the auditd process. # service auditd restart

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