The vAMI must log all login events.

From VMW vRealize Automation 7.x vAMI Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000172

SV-100919r1_rule The vAMI must log all login events.

Vulnerability discussion

Being able to work on a system through multiple views into the application allows a user to work more efficiently and more accurately. Before environments with windowing capabilities or multiple desktops, a user would log onto the application from different workstations or terminals. With today's workstations, this is no longer necessary and may signal a compromised session or user account. When concurrent logons are made from different workstations to the management interface, a log record needs to be generated. This allows the system administrator to investigate the incident and to be aware of the incident.

Check content

At the command prompt, execute the following command: grep -E 'auth.*unix' /etc/pam.d/vami-sfcb If no line is returned or the returned line does contain the option "debug", this is a finding.

Fix text

Navigate to and open /etc/pam.d/vami-sfcb. Configure the vami-sfcb file with the following value: "auth required /lib64/security/pam_unix.so debug"

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