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APPL-12-001029 - The macOS system must allocate audit record storage capacity to store at least one week's worth of audit records when audit records are not immediately sent to a central audit record storage facility.
Information
The audit service must be configured to require that records are kept for seven days or longer before deletion when there is no central audit record storage facility. When 'expire-after' is set to '7d', the audit service will not delete audit logs until the log data is at least seven days old.Solution
Edit the '/etc/security/audit_control' file and change the value for 'expire-after' to the amount of time audit logs should be kept for the system. Use the following command to set the 'expire-after' value to '7d':/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sed -i.bak 's/.*expire-after.*/expire-after:7d/' /etc/security/audit_control; /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/audit -s
A text editor may also be used to implement the required updates to the '/etc/security/audit_control' file.
See Also
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Apple_macOS_12_V1R9_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA STIG Apple macOS 12 v1r9
Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
References: 800-53|AU-4, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001849, Rule-ID|SV-252473r958752_rule, STIG-ID|APPL-12-001029, Vuln-ID|V-252473
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: 281cd82cece30ed07df3c5bb4cec19c811f13f43aa722a429f9c22f95d1f25a8