The operating system must automatically audit account termination.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-001405

SV-65619r1_rule The operating system must automatically audit account termination.

Vulnerability discussion

Accounts are utilized for identifying individual application users or for identifying the application processes themselves. When accounts are deleted, a Denial of Service could happen. The operating system must audit and notify, as required, to mitigate the Denial of Service risk.

Check content

In order to view the currently configured flags for the audit daemon, run the following command: sudo grep ^flags /etc/security/audit_control | sed 's/flags://' | tr "," "\n" | grep ad The account creation events are logged by way of the "ad" flag. If "ad" is not listed in the result of the check, this is a finding.

Fix text

To make sure the appropriate flags are enabled for auditing, run the following command: sudo sed -i.bak '/^flags/ s/$/,ad/' /etc/security/audit_control

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