RHEL 9 must prevent a user from overriding the disabling of the graphical user interface automount function.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
A nonprivileged account is any operating system account with authorizations of a nonprivileged user. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000114-GPOS-00059, SRG-OS-000378-GPOS-00163, SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
- ID
- SV-258015r1045086_rule
- Version
- RHEL-09-271025
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Configure the GNOME desktop to not allow a user to change the setting that disables automated mounting of removable media.
Add the following line to "/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/00-security-settings-lock" to prevent user modification:
/org/gnome/desktop/media-handling/automount-open