Setting Audit Rules

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Mon Jul 25 19:06:26 UTC 2011


On Monday, July 25, 2011 02:27:33 PM Rye, Gene R. wrote:
> I am attempting to secure a RHEL 5 64bit system.  I am modifying the
> stig.rules file to use as the audit.rules file.  The NSA guide
> identifies some rules requiring the ARCH value to be either 64b or 32b.
> Some existing rules have both OS versions being audited.  Should I leave
> both available even though my system is 64b or should I only use the 64b
> options?

All 64 bit x86_64 systems have both a 64 and 32 bit interface. So, you want both. 32 
bit system don't and you would only want 32 bit values for it.

-Steve




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