Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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Severity

Version

V2 · R10

CurrentPublished Wed Sep 30 2026

RHEL 9 must use a separate file system for the system audit data path.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

RHEL 9 must use a separate file system for the system audit data path.

Description

Discussion Text

Placing "/var/log/audit" in its own partition enables better separation between audit files and other system files, and helps ensure that auditing cannot be halted due to the partition running out of space.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000341-GPOS-00132, SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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Objective

V-257847

Rule

SV-257847r1044924_rule

Severity

low

Rule Version

RHEL-09-231030

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Verify that a separate file system/partition has been created for the system audit data path with the following command:

Note: /var/log/audit is used as the example as it is a common location.

$ mount | grep /var/log/audit 

/dev/mapper/rootvg-varlogaudit on /var/log/audit type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota)
Note: Options displayed for mount may differ.

If no line is returned, this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Migrate the system audit data path onto a separate file system.

STIG check 68 of 445 in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 STIG checklist

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