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The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must initiate support of session auditing upon startup.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>Session auditing is for use when a user's activities are under investigation. Typically, this DBMS capability would be used in conjunction with comparable monitoring of a user's online session, involving other software components such as operating systems, web servers, and front-end user applications. The current requirement, however, deals specifically with the DBMS. To be sure of capturing all activity during those periods when session auditing is in use, database auditing needs to be in operation for the whole time the DBMS is running.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-259218r938707_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Execute the following SQL as the "enterprisedb" operating system user:

psql edb -c "ALTER SYSTEM SET edb_audit_statement = 'all'"
psql edb -c "SELECT pg_reload_conf()"

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