Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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V1 · R3

CurrentPublished Wed Sep 30 2026

RHEL 10 must audit local events.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

RHEL 10 must audit local events.

Description

Discussion Text

Without establishing what type of events occurred, along with the source, location, and outcome, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

If option "local_events" is not set to "yes", only events from the network will be aggregated.

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Objective

V-281098

Rule

SV-281098r1268225_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

RHEL-10-500010

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Verify that RHEL 10 generates audit records for local events with the following command:

$ sudo grep local_events /etc/audit/auditd.conf
local_events = yes

If "local_events" is not set to "yes", the command does not return a line, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 10 to generate audit records for local events by adding or updating the following line in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf":

local_events = yes

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

$ sudo service auditd restart

STIG check 167 of 435 in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 STIG checklist

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