The Photon operating system must audit all account removal actions.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

When operating system accounts are removed, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are used for identifying individual users or operating system processes. To detect and respond to events affecting user accessibility and system processing, operating systems must audit account removal actions.

ID: SV-256520r991553_rule
Version: PHTN-30-000045
Severity: Medium
References: CCI-001405
Updated: about 2 months ago

Remediation Templates

Navigate to and open:

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

Add the following lines:
-w /usr/sbin/userdel -p x -k userdel
-w /usr/sbin/groupdel -p x -k groupdel

At the command line, run the following command to load the new audit rules:

# /sbin/augenrules --load

Note: A new "audit.STIG.rules" file is provided for placement in "/etc/audit/rules.d" that contains all rules needed for auditd.

Note: An older "audit.STIG.rules" may exist if the file exists and references older "GEN" SRG IDs. This file can be removed and replaced as necessary with an updated one.

The Photon operating system must audit all account removal actions.

Description

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure