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