Edit file File name : auditd.service Content :[Unit] Description=Security Auditing Service DefaultDependencies=no ## If auditd is sending or recieving remote logging, copy this file to ## /etc/systemd/system/auditd.service and comment out the first After and ## uncomment the second so that network-online.target is part of After. ## then comment the first Before and uncomment the second Before to remove ## sysinit.target from "Before". After=local-fs.target systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service ##After=network-online.target local-fs.target systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service Before=sysinit.target shutdown.target ##Before=shutdown.target Conflicts=shutdown.target RefuseManualStop=yes ConditionKernelCommandLine=!audit=0 ConditionKernelCommandLine=!audit=off Documentation=man:auditd(8) https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-documentation [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/run/auditd.pid ExecStart=/sbin/auditd ## To not use augenrules, copy this file to /etc/systemd/system/auditd.service ## and comment/delete the next line and uncomment the auditctl line. ## NOTE: augenrules expect any rules to be added to /etc/audit/rules.d/ ExecStartPost=-/sbin/augenrules --load #ExecStartPost=-/sbin/auditctl -R /etc/audit/audit.rules # By default we don't clear the rules on exit. To enable this, uncomment # the next line after copying the file to /etc/systemd/system/auditd.service #ExecStopPost=/sbin/auditctl -R /etc/audit/audit-stop.rules Restart=on-failure # Do not restart for intentional exits. See EXIT CODES section in auditd(8). RestartPreventExitStatus=2 4 6 ### Security Settings ### MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true LockPersonality=true # The following control prevents rules on /proc so its off by default #ProtectControlGroups=true ProtectKernelModules=true RestrictRealtime=true [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Save