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PHTN-40-000078 - The Photon operating system must audit all account removal actions.
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This audit has been deprecated and will be removed in a future update.
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When operating system accounts are removed, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual users or for identifying the operating system processes themselves. In order to detect and respond to events affecting user accessibility and system processing, operating systems must audit account removal actions and, as required, notify the appropriate individuals so they can investigate the event. Such a capability greatly reduces the risk that operating system accessibility will be negatively affected for extended periods of time and provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes.Solution
Navigate to and open:/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.STIG.rules
Add or update the following lines:
-w /usr/sbin/userdel -p x -k userdel
-w /usr/sbin/groupdel -p x -k groupdel
At the command line, run the following command to load the new audit rules:
# /sbin/augenrules --load
Note: An "audit.STIG.rules" file is provided with this guidance for placement in "/etc/audit/rules.d" that contains all rules needed for auditd.
Note: An older "audit.STIG.rules" may exist and may reference older "GEN" SRG IDs. This file can be removed and replaced as necessary with an updated one.
See Also
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_8-0_Y24M08_STIG.zip
Item Details
References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001405, Rule-ID|SV-258834r991553_rule, STIG-ID|PHTN-40-000078, Vuln-ID|V-258834
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: b2ca9cdf2e264032b01338b7e7ac2042ed135821c6144713938c27b0c73847ef