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V-252970

CAT II (Medium)

All TOSS local interactive user home directories must be owned by root.

Rule ID

SV-252970r991592_rule

STIG

Tri-Lab Operating System Stack (TOSS) 4 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R5

CCIs

CCI-000366

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 that all user home directories are owned by the root user with the following command:

$ find $(awk -F: '($3>=1000)&&($7 !~ /nologin/){print $6}' /etc/passwd) -maxdepth 0 -not -user root -ls

If there is any output, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Change the owner of interactive user's home directories to root. 

To change the owner of a local interactive user's home directory, use the following command:

Note: The example will be for the user "smithj."

$ sudo chown root /home/smithj