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1.268 RHEL-09-411020

Information

All RHEL 9 local interactive user accounts must be assigned a home directory upon creation.

GROUP ID: V-258043
RULE ID: SV-258043r991589

If local interactive users are not assigned a valid home directory, there is no place for the storage and control of files they should own.

Solution

Configure RHEL 9 to assign home directories to all new local interactive users by setting the "CREATE_HOME" parameter in "/etc/login.defs" to "yes" as follows.

CREATE_HOME yes

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-258043r991589_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-09-411020, Vuln-ID|V-258043

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 9b185b7bdfc0842e9673236b57f6bb6a955532069e9378a96054367c28d539d6