STIGUI
V-261348CAT II — Medium severitySV-261348r996500_rule

All SLEM 5 local interactive user accounts, upon creation, must be assigned a home directory.

Rule version SLEM-05-411010 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

If local interactive users are not assigned a valid home directory, there is no place for the storage and control of files they should own.

Check

Verify all SLEM 5 local interactive users on the system are assigned a home directory upon creation with the following command:

     > grep -i create_home /etc/login.defs
     CREATE_HOME yes

If the "CREATE_HOME" parameter is not set to "yes", the line is commented out, or the line is missing, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure SLEM 5 to assign home directories to all new local interactive users.

Add or modify the following line in the "/etc/login.defs" file:

CREATE_HOME yes

Identifiers

Group ID
V-261348
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-261348r996500_rule
Check ID
C-65077r996499_chk
Fix ID
F-64985r995910_fix