STIGUI
V-216418CAT II — Medium severitySV-216418r959010_rule

Permissions on user home directories must be 750 or less permissive.

Rule version SOL-11.1-070020 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

Group-writable or world-writable user home directories may enable malicious users to steal or modify other users' data or to gain another user's system privileges.

Check

The root role is required.

Check that the permissions on users' home directories are 750 or less permissive.

# for dir in `logins -ox |\ awk -F: '($8 == "PS") { print $6 }'`; do find ${dir} -type d -prune \( -perm -g+w -o \ -perm -o+r -o -perm -o+w -o -perm -o+x \) -ls done

If output is created, this is finding.

Fix

The root role is required.

Change the permissions on users' directories to 750 or less permissive.

# chmod 750 [directory name]

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216418
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216418r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17654r371342_chk
Fix ID
F-17652r371343_fix