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V-277122CAT II — Medium severitySV-277122r1148818_rule

The macOS system must secure users' home folders.

Rule version APPL-26-002068 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

The system must be configured to prevent access to other users' home folders.

The default behavior of macOS is to allow all valid users access to the top level of every other user's home folder while restricting access only to the Apple default folders within.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00230, SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00228

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured so that permissions are set correctly on user home directories with the following command:

/usr/bin/find /System/Volumes/Data/Users -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d ! \( -perm 700 -o -perm 711 \) | /usr/bin/grep -v "Shared" | /usr/bin/grep -v "Guest" | /usr/bin/wc -l | /usr/bin/xargs

If the result is not "0", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to set the appropriate permissions for each user on the system with the following command:

IFS=$'\n' for userDirs in $( /usr/bin/find /System/Volumes/Data/Users -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d ! \( -perm 700 -o -perm 711 \) | /usr/bin/grep -v "Shared" | /usr/bin/grep -v "Guest" ); do /bin/chmod og-rwx "$userDirs" done unset IFS

Identifiers

Group ID
V-277122
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00230
Rule ID
SV-277122r1148818_rule
Check ID
C-81277r1148816_chk
Fix ID
F-81182r1148817_fix