All TOSS local interactive user home directories must be owned by the user's primary group.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>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.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-252971r991592_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Change the group owner of interactive user's home directories to that users primary group. To change the group owner of a local interactive user's home directory, use the following command:
Note: The example will be for the user "smithj."
$ sudo chgrp smithj /home/smithj