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1.177 SLES-15-040090

Information

All SUSE operating system local interactive user home directories must have mode 0750 or less permissive.

GROUP ID: V-234993
RULE ID: SV-234993r991589

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

Solution

Change the mode of SUSE operating system local 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

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23779

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-234993r991589_rule, STIG-ID|SLES-15-040090, Vuln-ID|V-234993

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 50309bf87e6703cee30f67d1be173af0788fa8cd3a525da39982c0010b9256f1