RHEL 9 must write audit records to disk.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Audit data should be synchronously written to disk to ensure log integrity. This setting assures that all audit event data is written disk.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-258170r991589_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Configure the audit system to write log files to the disk.
Edit the /etc/audit/auditd.conf file and add or update the "write_logs" option to "yes":
write_logs = yes