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Write Audit Logs to the Disk

An XCCDF Rule

Description

To configure Audit daemon to write Audit logs to the disk, set write_logs to yes in /etc/audit/auditd.conf. This is the default setting.

Rationale

If write_logs isn't set to yes, the Audit logs will not be written to the disk.

ID
xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_auditd_write_logs
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Shell Script

# Remediation is applicable only in certain platforms
if [ ! -f /.dockerenv ] && [ ! -f /run/.containerenv ] && rpm --quiet -q audit; then

if [ -e "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" ] ; then
    
    LC_ALL=C sed -i "/^\s*write_logs\s*=\s*/Id" "/etc/audit/auditd.conf"

Remediation - Kubernetes Patch

---
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1
kind: MachineConfig
spec:
  config:
    ignition:

Remediation - Ansible

- name: Gather the package facts
  package_facts:
    manager: auto
  tags:
  - DISA-STIG-RHEL-09-653105
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6