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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Record Events that Modify User/Group Information via open syscall - /etc/group

    The audit system should collect write events to /etc/group file for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify User/Group Information via open_by_handle_at syscall - /etc/group

    The audit system should collect write events to /etc/group file for all group and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Make the auditd Configuration Immutable

    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
  • Number of Record to Retain Before Flushing to Disk

    The setting for freq in /etc/audit/auditd.conf
    Value
  • Record Events that Modify User/Group Information via openat syscall - /etc/group

    The audit system should collect write events to /etc/group file for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify User/Group Information via open syscall - /etc/gshadow

    The audit system should collect write events to /etc/gshadow file for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify User/Group Information via open_by_handle_at syscall - /etc/gshadow

    The audit system should collect write events to /etc/gshadow file for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify User/Group Information via openat syscall - /etc/gshadow

    The audit system should collect write events to /etc/gshadow file for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify User/Group Information via open syscall - /etc/passwd

    The audit system should collect write events to /etc/passwd file for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • System Audit Logs Must Have Mode 0640 or Less Permissive

    Determine where the audit logs are stored with the following command: <pre>$ sudo grep -iw log_file /etc/audit/auditd.conf log_file = /var/log/aud...
    Rule Medium Severity

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