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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Record Events When Executables Are Run As Another User

    Verify the system generates an audit record when actions are run as another user. sudo provides users with temporary elevated privileges to perform...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events When Privileged Executables Are Run

    Verify the system generates an audit record when privileged functions are executed. If audit is using the "auditctl" tool to load the rules, run t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects System Administrator Actions

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect administrator actions for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Protect Random-Number Entropy Pool

    The I/O operations of the Linux kernel block layer due to their inherently unpredictable execution times have been traditionally considered as a re...
    Group
  • Shutdown System When Auditing Failures Occur

    If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit rules during daemon startup (the default),...
    Rule Medium Severity

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