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1.241 OL09-00-002120

Information

OL 9 must prevent a user from overriding the disabling of the graphical user interface automount function.

GROUP ID: V-271678
RULE ID: SV-271678r1091746

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

Solution

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

Update the dconf system databases:

$ sudo dconf update

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/27024

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-3, CCI|CCI-000778, CCI|CCI-001958, Rule-ID|SV-271678r1091746_rule, STIG-ID|OL09-00-002120, Vuln-ID|V-271678

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: f82a3f3fb3733c6d756ef7ca5f93a642f1e715cf266ce466375a41a9fea52925