Enable rsyslog Service

An XCCDF Rule

Description

The rsyslog service provides syslog-style logging by default on OpenEmbedded. The rsyslog service can be enabled with the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable rsyslog.service

Rationale

The rsyslog service must be running in order to provide logging services, which are essential to system administration.

ID: xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_service_rsyslog_enabled
Severity: Medium
References: 1 12 13 14 15 16 2 3 5 6 7 8 9

APO10.01 APO10.03 APO10.04 APO10.05 APO11.04 APO13.01 BAI03.05 BAI04.04 DSS01.03 DSS03.05 DSS05.02 DSS05.04 DSS05.05 DSS05.07 MEA01.01 MEA01.02 MEA01.03 MEA01.04 MEA01.05 MEA02.01

CCI-000366 CCI-001311 CCI-001312 CCI-001557 CCI-001851

164.312(a)(2)(ii)

4.3.2.6.7 4.3.3.3.9 4.3.3.5.8 4.3.4.4.7 4.4.2.1 4.4.2.2 4.4.2.4

SR 2.10 SR 2.11 SR 2.12 SR 2.8 SR 2.9 SR 6.1 SR 6.2 SR 7.1 SR 7.2

A.12.1.3 A.12.4.1 A.12.4.2 A.12.4.3 A.12.4.4 A.12.7.1 A.14.2.7 A.15.2.1 A.15.2.2 A.17.2.1

AU-4(1) CM-6(a)

DE.CM-1 DE.CM-3 DE.CM-7 ID.SC-4 PR.DS-4 PR.PT-1

SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Updated: 8 months ago


[customizations.services]
enabled = ["rsyslog"]

- name: Enable service rsyslog
  block:

  - name: Gather the package facts
    package_facts:
      manager: auto
  - name: Enable service rsyslog
    systemd:
      name: rsyslog
      enabled: 'yes'
      state: started
      masked: 'no'
    when:
    - '"rsyslog" in ansible_facts.packages'
  when: ansible_virtualization_type not in ["docker", "lxc", "openvz", "podman", "container"]
  tags:
  - NIST-800-53-AU-4(1)
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)
  - enable_strategy
  - low_complexity
  - low_disruption
  - medium_severity
  - no_reboot_needed
  - service_rsyslog_enabled

include enable_rsyslog

class enable_rsyslog {
  service {'rsyslog':
    enable => true,
    ensure => 'running',  }
}

Enable rsyslog Service

Description

Rationale

Remediation - OS Build Blueprint

Remediation - Ansible

Remediation - Puppet