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DISA STIG for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - usermod

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure auditd Data Retention

    The audit system writes data to <code>/var/log/audit/audit.log</code>. By default, <code>auditd</code> rotates 5 logs by size (6MB), retaining a ma...
    Group
  • Configure a Sufficiently Large Partition for Audit Logs

    The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 operating system must allocate audit record storage capacity to store at least one weeks worth of audit records when...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure auditd Disk Error Action on Disk Error

    The <code>auditd</code> service can be configured to take an action when there is a disk error. Edit the file <code>/etc/audit/auditd.conf</code>. ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure auditd Disk Full Action when Disk Space Is Full

    The <code>auditd</code> service can be configured to take an action when disk space is running low but prior to running out of space completely. Ed...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure auditd mail_acct Action on Low Disk Space

    The <code>auditd</code> service can be configured to send email to a designated account in certain situations. Add or correct the following line in...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure auditd space_left Action on Low Disk Space

    The <code>auditd</code> service can be configured to take an action when disk space <i>starts</i> to run low. Edit the file <code>/etc/audit/auditd...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure auditd space_left on Low Disk Space

    The <code>auditd</code> service can be configured to take an action when disk space is running low but prior to running out of space completely. Ed...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Include Local Events in Audit Logs

    To configure Audit daemon to include local events in Audit logs, set <code>local_events</code> to <code>yes</code> in <code>/etc/audit/auditd.conf<...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Resolve information before writing to audit logs

    To configure Audit daemon to resolve all uid, gid, syscall, architecture, and socket address information before writing the events to disk, set <co...
    Rule Low Severity

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