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1.116 RHEL-09-232050

Information

All RHEL 9 local interactive user home directories must have mode 0750 or less permissive.

GROUP ID: V-257890
RULE ID: SV-257890r1044961

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

Solution

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 "wadea".

$ sudo chmod 0750 /home/wadea

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/22008

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-257890r1044961_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-09-232050, Vuln-ID|V-257890

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: ab23144cb65190d1e21a244e76f644dbb3a78a66a1a39bddd71145d07ff5ae14