OL 9 must prevent a user from overriding the disabling of the graphical user interface automount function.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| medium | V-271678 | SRG-OS-000114-GPOS-00059 | OL09-00-002120 | SV-271678r1091746_rule | 2026-02-17 | 1 |
Description
A nonprivileged account is any operating system account with authorizations of a nonprivileged user.
Satisfies: SRG-OS-000114-GPOS-00059, SRG-OS-000378-GPOS-00163
ℹ️ Check
This requirement assumes the use of the OL 9 default graphical user interface—the GNOME desktop environment. If the system does not have any graphical user interface installed, this requirement is Not Applicable.
Verify that OL 9 disables ability of the user to override the graphical user interface automount setting.
Determine which profile the system database is using with the following command:
$ grep system-db /etc/dconf/profile/user
system-db:local
Check that the automount setting is locked from nonprivileged user modification with the following command:
Note: The example below is using the database "local" for the system, so the path is "/etc/dconf/db/local.d". This path must be modified if a database other than "local" is being used.
$ grep 'automount-open' /etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/*
/org/gnome/desktop/media-handling/automount-open
If the command does not return at least the example result, this is a finding.
✔️ Fix
Configure the GNOME desktop to not allow a user to change the setting that disables automated mounting of removable media.
Add the following line to "/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/00-security-settings-lock" to prevent user modification:
/org/gnome/desktop/media-handling/automount-open
Update the dconf system databases:
$ sudo dconf update