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1.169 RHEL-10-500015

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RHEL 10 must write audit records to disk.

GROUP ID: V-281099RULE ID: SV-281099r1165652

Audit data must be synchronously written to disk to ensure log integrity. This setting ensures that all audit event data is written to disk.

Solution

Configure the RHEL 10 audit system to write log files to the disk.

Edit the "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" file and add or update the "write_logs" option to "yes":

write_logs = yes

Restart the audit daemon with the following command for changes to take effect:

$ sudo service auditd restart

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/26403

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-9, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000163, Rule-ID|SV-281099r1165652_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-10-500015, Vuln-ID|V-281099

Plugin: Unix

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