Enable syslog-ng Service

An XCCDF Rule

Description

The syslog-ng service (in replacement of rsyslog) provides syslog-style logging by default on Debian. The syslog-ng service can be enabled with the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable syslog-ng.service

Rationale

The syslog-ng service must be running in order to provide logging services, which are essential to system administration.

ID: xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_service_syslogng_enabled
Severity: Medium
References: BP28(R46) BP28(R5)

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APO10.01 APO10.03 APO10.04 APO10.05 APO11.04 APO13.01 BAI03.05 BAI04.04 DSS01.03 DSS03.05 DSS05.02 DSS05.04 DSS05.05 DSS05.07 MEA01.01 MEA01.02 MEA01.03 MEA01.04 MEA01.05 MEA02.01

CCI-001311 CCI-001312 CCI-001557 CCI-001851

4.3.2.6.7 4.3.3.3.9 4.3.3.5.8 4.3.4.4.7 4.4.2.1 4.4.2.2 4.4.2.4

SR 2.10 SR 2.11 SR 2.12 SR 2.8 SR 2.9 SR 6.1 SR 6.2 SR 7.1 SR 7.2

A.12.1.3 A.12.4.1 A.12.4.2 A.12.4.3 A.12.4.4 A.12.7.1 A.14.2.7 A.15.2.1 A.15.2.2 A.17.2.1

AU-4(1) CM-6(a)

DE.CM-1 DE.CM-3 DE.CM-7 ID.SC-4 PR.DS-4 PR.PT-1
Updated: about 1 year ago


[customizations.services]
enabled = ["syslog-ng"]

- name: Enable service syslog-ng
  block:

  - name: Gather the package facts
    package_facts:
      manager: auto
  - name: Enable service syslog-ng
    systemd:
      name: syslog-ng
      enabled: 'yes'
      state: started
      masked: 'no'
    when:
    - '"syslog-ng" in ansible_facts.packages'
  when: ansible_virtualization_type not in ["docker", "lxc", "openvz", "podman", "container"]
  tags:
  - NIST-800-53-AU-4(1)
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)
  - enable_strategy
  - low_complexity
  - low_disruption
  - medium_severity
  - no_reboot_needed
  - service_syslogng_enabled

include enable_syslog-ng

class enable_syslog-ng {
  service {'syslog-ng':
    enable => true,
    ensure => 'running',  }
}

Enable syslog-ng Service

Description

Rationale

Remediation - OS Build Blueprint

Remediation - Ansible

Remediation - Puppet