Details

The audit_user file may be used to selectively audit more, or fewer, auditing features for specific individuals. If used this way it could subject the activity to a lawsuit and could cause the loss of valuable auditing data in the case of a system compromise. If an item is audited for one individual (other than for root and administrative users – who have more auditing features) it must be audited for all.

NOTE: Nessus has provided the target output to assist in reviewing the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Edit the audit_user file and remove specific user configurations differing from the global audit settings.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_SOL_10_x86_V2R2_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Audit and Accountability.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|AU-12c.
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-000172
• CSCv6|6.2
• Rule-ID|SV-227533r603266_rule
• STIG-ID|GEN000000-SOL00040
• STIG-Legacy|SV-4353
• STIG-Legacy|V-4353
• Vuln-ID|V-227533

Source

• Tenable.com/audits