STIGUI
V-216188CAT II — Medium severitySV-216188r959010_rule

All home directories must be owned by the respective user assigned to it in /etc/passwd.

Rule version SOL-11.1-070090 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

Since the user is accountable for files stored in the user's home directory, the user must be the owner of the directory.

Check

The root role is required.

Check that home directories are owned by the correct user.

# export IFS=":"; logins -uxo | while read user uid group gid gecos home rest; do result=$(find ${home} -type d -prune \! -user $user -print 2>/dev/null); if [ ! -z "${result}" ]; then echo "User: ${user}\tOwner: $(ls -ld $home | awk '{ print $3 }')"; fi; done

If any output is produced, this is a finding.

Fix

The root role is required.

Correct the owner of any directory that does not match the password file entry for that user.

# chown [user] [home directory]

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216188
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216188r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17426r372946_chk
Fix ID
F-17424r372947_fix