Audit mounting of removable media in RHEL

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • To audit the mounting of all removable media. This includes CD/DVD media, USB storage, removable hard disks in to our systems.

  • It should not prevent mounting such media, only create an auditable log of the media's volume name and time of insertion/mount. For workstations, this log will be correlated with which user is logged in at the time for attribution.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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