Rule to collect events for successful password change from root user
A successful password change operation from the 'root' account has been detected in the system log files.
A password was successfully changed on the system. This monitor allows system administrators to track password changes.
The description of the alert and/or the output data item contains information on the event encountered. If the activity appears suspicious, please check the associated event details and any other events that happened around the time of this event.
Target | Microsoft.ACS.Linux.SLES.11.ACSEndPoint |
Category | EventCollection |
Enabled | True |
Alert Generate | False |
Remotable | True |
ID | Module Type | TypeId | RunAs |
---|---|---|---|
EventDS | DataSource | Microsoft.Unix.SCXLog.Privileged.Datasource | Default |
WA | WriteAction | Microsoft.ACS.Unix.SecureEventLogWriter | Default |
<Rule ID="Microsoft.ACS.Linux.SLES.11.Password.Change.From.Root.Succeeded" Enabled="true" Target="Microsoft.ACS.Linux.SLES.11.ACSEndPoint" Remotable="true">
<Category>EventCollection</Category>
<DataSources>
<DataSource ID="EventDS" TypeID="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.SCXLog.Privileged.Datasource">
<Host>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.Computer"]/NetworkName$</Host>
<LogFile>/var/log/messages</LogFile>
<!-- [TYPE] SUSE Password True -->
<!-- [INPUT] Nov 30 05:34:35 scxcr-sles11-03 passwd[25150]: password changed - account=jeffcof, uid=1005, by=0 -->
<!-- [EXPECTED] date="Nov 30 05:34:35"; hostname="scxcr-sles11-03"; process="passwd"; processId="25150"; clientUser="jeffcof" -->
<RegExpFilter>\s+passwd\[[[:digit:]]+\]: password changed - account=\S+,</RegExpFilter>
</DataSource>
</DataSources>
<WriteActions>
<WriteAction ID="WA" TypeID="ACS.Unix!Microsoft.ACS.Unix.SecureEventLogWriter">
<RegExp>(?'date'\S+\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+:\d+)\s+(?:\S+:)?(?'hostname'\S+)\s+(?'process'passwd)\[(?'processId'\d+)\]: password changed - account=(?'clientUser'\S+), uid=\d+, by=0</RegExp>
<EventType>1</EventType>
<EventId>27004</EventId>
<BackrefOverrides>sessionName="Password changed"; user="root"</BackrefOverrides>
</WriteAction>
</WriteActions>
</Rule>