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V-269312CAT II — Medium severitySV-269312r1050194_rule

AlmaLinux OS 9 must mount /boot with the nodev option.

Rule version ALMA-09-026310 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-25

Discussion

The only legitimate location for device files is the "/dev" directory located on the root partition. The only exception to this is chroot jails.

Check

Verify that the "/boot" mount point has the "nodev" option is with the following command:

$ mount | grep '\s/boot\s'

/dev/sda2 on /boot type xfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota)

If the "/boot" file system does not have the "nodev" option set, this is a finding.

Fix

Modify "/etc/fstab" to use the "nodev" option on the "/boot" directory.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-269312
Group title
SRG-OS-000368-GPOS-00154
Rule ID
SV-269312r1050194_rule
Check ID
C-73343r1048312_chk
Fix ID
F-73244r1048313_fix