V-215198

Discussion

Users' home directories/folders may contain information of a sensitive nature. Non-privileged users should coordinate any sharing of information with an SA through shared resources.

Check Content

Check the mode of the root home directory by running the following commands:
# ls -ld `grep "^root" /etc/passwd | awk -F":" '{print $6}'`

The above command should yield the following output:
drwx------   22 root     system     4096 Sep 06 18:00 /root

If the mode of the directory is not equal to "0700", this is a finding.