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The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all modifications to the tallylog file must generate an audit record.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Without generating audit records specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter). Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215, SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218

ID
SV-234946r958412_rule
Version
SLES-15-030470
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the SUSE operating system to generate an audit record for any all modifications to the "tallylog" file occur. 

Add or update the following rule to "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules":

-w /var/log/tallylog -p wa -k logins