Ensure actions as another user are always loggedID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:97174 | Date: (C)2024-04-23 (M)2024-04-23 |
Class: COMPLIANCE | Family: unix |
sudo provides users with temporary elevated privileges to perform operations, either as the superuser or another user. Creating an audit log of users with temporary elevated privileges and the operation(s) they performed is essential to reporting. Administrators will want to correlate the events written to the audit trail with the records written to sudo logfile to verify if unauthorized commands have been executed