All TOSS local interactive user home directories must be owned by root.

Users' home directories/folders may contain information of a sensitive nature. Non-privileged users should coordinate any sharing of information with an SA through shared resources.

Check that all user home directories are owned by the root user with the following command:

$ find $(awk -F: '($3>=1000)&&($7 !~ /nologin/){print $6}' /etc/passwd) -maxdepth 0 -not -user root -ls

If there is any output, this is a finding.

Change the owner of interactive user's home directories to root.

To change the owner of a local interactive user's home directory, use the following command:

Note: The example will be for the user "smithj."

$ sudo chown root /home/smithj