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Nutanix AOS must be configured so that all local interactive user home directories have mode "0750" or less permissive.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

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ID
SV-254197r846679_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Configure any interactive users home directory to have a mode of "0750" or less by running the command:

$ sudo chmod 0750 [path to interactive users home directory]