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V-280937CAT II — Medium severitySV-280937r1184727_rule

RHEL 10 must use a separate file system for user home directories (such as "/home" or an equivalent).

Rule version RHEL-10-000530 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

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

Check

Verify RHEL 10 uses a separate file system/partition for "/home" with the following command:

$ mount | grep /home /dev/mapper/luks-ca2261ed-7b00-4b7b-84cd-8cd6d8fa4b28 on /home type xfs (rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,seclabel) Note: Options displayed for mount may differ.

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

Fix

Configure RHEL 10 to use a separate file system for user home directories by migrating the "/home" directory onto a separate file system/partition.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-280937
Group title
SRG-OS-000420-GPOS-00186
Rule ID
SV-280937r1184727_rule
Check ID
C-85498r1165164_chk
Fix ID
F-85403r1165165_fix