The macOS system must configure audit retention to seven days.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
The audit service must be configured to require records be kept for an organizational defined value before deletion, unless the system uses a central audit record storage facility. When "expire-after" is set to "7d", the audit service will not delete audit logs until the log data criteria is met.
- ID
- SV-259467r958752_rule
- Version
- APPL-14-001029
- Severity
- Low
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Configure the macOS system to set audit retention to seven days with the following command:
/usr/bin/sed -i.bak 's/^expire-after.*/expire-after:7d/' /etc/security/audit_control; /usr/sbin/audit -s