ansible-hardening/doc/metadata/rhel7/V-72081.rst

---id: V-72081 status: implemented tag: auditd ---

The audit daemon takes various actions when there is an auditing failure. There are three options for the -f flag for auditctl:

• 0: In the event of an auditing failure, do nothing.
• 1: In the event of an auditing failure, write messages to the kernel log.
• 2: In the event of an auditing failure, cause a kernel panic.

Most operating systems set the failure flag to 1 by default, which maximizes system availability while still causing an alert. The tasks in the security role set the flag to 1 by default.

Deployers can adjust the following Ansible variable to customize the failure flag:

security_rhel7_audit_failure_flag: 1

Warning

Setting the failure flag to 2 is strongly discouraged unless the security of the system takes priority over its availability. Any failure in auditing causes a kernel panic and the system requires a hard reboot.