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

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Excessive permissions on local interactive user home directories may allow unauthorized access to user files by other users.

ID
SV-237769r648743_rule
Version
UBTU-18-010451
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A 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 "smithj".

$ sudo chmod 0750 /home/smithj