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1.240 RHEL-09-271025

Information

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

GROUP ID: V-258015
RULE ID: SV-258015r1045086

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, SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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

Then update the dconf system databases:

$ sudo dconf update

See Also

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

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-3, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000778, CCI|CCI-001958, Rule-ID|SV-258015r1045086_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-09-271025, Vuln-ID|V-258015

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 8bd2c5c2dd20558c5d89f934c30757744985c0cf0817ac099c846914f9e982b0