The operating system must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish what type of events occurred.

From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000130

SV-50433r2_rule The operating system must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish what type of events occurred.

Vulnerability discussion

Ensuring the "auditd" service is active ensures audit records generated by the kernel can be written to disk, or that appropriate actions will be taken if other obstacles exist.

Check content

Run the following command to determine the current status of the "auditd" service: # service auditd status If the service is enabled, it should return the following: auditd is running... If the service is not running, this is a finding.

Fix text

The "auditd" service is an essential userspace component of the Linux Auditing System, as it is responsible for writing audit records to disk. The "auditd" service can be enabled with the following commands: # chkconfig auditd on # service auditd start

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