The operating system must audit any use of privileged accounts, or roles, with access to organization-defined security functions or security-relevant information, when accessing other system functions.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-000040

SV-65653r1_rule The operating system must audit any use of privileged accounts, or roles, with access to organization-defined security functions or security-relevant information, when accessing other system functions.

Vulnerability discussion

The auditing system must be configured to audit authentication and authorization events.

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 aa The authentication events are logged via the "aa" flag. If "aa" 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/$/,aa/' /etc/security/audit_control

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