STIGUI
V-257843CAT II — Medium severitySV-257843r1268251_rule

A separate RHEL 9 file system must be used for user home directories (such as /home or an equivalent).

Rule version RHEL-09-231010 · STIG v2 · 2026-09-17

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 a separate file system/partition has been created for "/home" 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-257843
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-257843r1268251_rule
Check ID
C-61584r925514_chk
Fix ID
F-61508r925515_fix