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All RHEL 9 local interactive user home directories must have mode 0750 or less permissive.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

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ID
SV-257890r991589_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Change the mode of interactive user's home directories to "0750". To change the mode of a local interactive user's home directory, use the following command:

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

$ sudo chmod 0750 /home/wadea