The operating system must provide audit record generation capability for the auditable events defined in at the organizational level for the organization-defined information system components.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-000169

SV-65881r1_rule The operating system must provide audit record generation capability for the auditable events defined in at the organizational level for the organization-defined information system components.

Vulnerability discussion

The list of audited events is the set of events for which audits are to be generated. This set of events is typically a subset of the list of all events for which the system is capable of generating audit records (i.e., auditable events) for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, file names involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked.

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The options to configure the audit daemon are located in the /etc/security/audit_contol file. To view the current settings, run the following command: sudo grep ^flags /etc/security/audit_control | sed 's/flags://' If the flags option is not set, this is a finding.

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To set the audit flags to the recommended setting, run the following command: sed -i.bak 's/^flags.*$/flags:lo,ad,fr,fw,fc,fd,fm,pc,nt,aa/' /etc/security/audit_control You may also edit the /etc/security/audit_control file using a text editor to define the flags your organization requires for auditing.

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