The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that all local interactive user home directories are owned by their respective users.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>If a local interactive user does not own their home directory, unauthorized users could access or modify the user's files, and the users may not be able to access their own files.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-204469r603830_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Change the owner of a local interactive user's home directories to that owner. 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, who has a home directory of "/home/smithj".
# chown smithj /home/smithj