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1.85 SLES-15-020110

Information

All SUSE operating system local interactive user accounts, upon creation, must be assigned a home directory.

GROUP ID: V-234880
RULE ID: SV-234880r991589

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 the SUSE operating system 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/23779

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-234880r991589_rule, STIG-ID|SLES-15-020110, Vuln-ID|V-234880

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 1ebf9c4bbfec48fd2a694d9689f5eb7b4925962b9183ecc4e37be4cf75ac8b31