The Photon operating system audit files and directories must have correct permissions.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Protecting audit information includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operations on audit information.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-256522r887240_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
At the command line, run the following command:
# chown root:root /etc/audit/auditd.conf