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The Photon operating system must audit all account creations.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>Once an attacker establishes access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to create an account. Auditing account creation actions provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000004-GPOS-00004, SRG-OS-000476-GPOS-00221</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-258801r933464_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Navigate to and open:

/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.STIG.rules

Add or update the following lines: