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V-256560

CAT II (Medium)

The Photon operating system must be configured so the "/root" path is protected from unauthorized access.

Rule ID

SV-256560r991589_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R4

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

If the "/root" path is accessible to users other than root, unauthorized users could change the root partitions files.

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command:

# stat -c "%n permissions are %a and owned by %U:%G" /root

Expected result:

/root permissions are 700 and owned by root:root

If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix Text

At the command line, run the following commands:

# chmod 700 /root
# chown root:root /root