AIX must start audit at boot.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>If auditing is enabled late in the start-up process, the actions of some start-up processes may not be audited. Some audit systems also maintain state information only available if auditing is enabled before a given process is created.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-215247r991555_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
To start auditing at system startup, add the following line to the /etc/rc file, just prior to the line reading dspmsg rc.cat 5 'Multi-user initialization completed':
/usr/sbin/audit start
Symmetrically add the '/usr/sbin/audit shutdown' command to /etc/rc.shutdown.