Extend Audit Backlog Limit for the Audit Daemon
An XCCDF Rule
Description
To improve the kernel capacity to queue all log events, even those which occurred
prior to the audit daemon, add the argument audit_backlog_limit=8192
to the default
GRUB 2 command line for the Linux operating system.
Configure the default Grub2 kernel command line to contain audit_backlog_limit=8192 as follows:
# grub2-editenv - set "$(grub2-editenv - list | grep kernelopts) audit_backlog_limit=8192"
Rationale
audit_backlog_limit sets the queue length for audit events awaiting transfer to the audit daemon. Until the audit daemon is up and running, all log messages are stored in this queue. If the queue is overrun during boot process, the action defined by audit failure flag is taken.
- ID
- xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_grub2_audit_backlog_limit_argument
- Severity
- Low
- References
- Updated