STIGUI
V-271433CAT II — Medium severitySV-271433r1091011_rule

OL 9 must be configured so that a separate file system must be used for user home directories (such as /home or an equivalent).

Rule version OL09-00-000003 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

Ensuring that "/home" is mounted on its own partition enables the setting of more restrictive mount options, and also helps ensure that users cannot trivially fill partitions used for log or audit data storage.

Check

Verify that OL 9 uses a separate file system for user home directories (such as /home or an equivalent) with the following command:

$ mount | grep /home UUID=fba5000f-2ffa-4417-90eb-8c54ae74a32f on /home type ext4 (rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,seclabel)

If a separate entry for "/home" is not in use, this is a finding.

Fix

Migrate the "/home" directory onto a separate file system/partition.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271433
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-271433r1091011_rule
Check ID
C-75483r1091009_chk
Fix ID
F-75390r1091010_fix