STIGUI
V-282721CAT II — Medium severitySV-282721r1201143_rule

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

Rule version TOSS-05-000293 · 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 local interactive users on TOSS 5 are assigned a home directory upon creation using the following command:

$ grep -i create_home /etc/login.defs

CREATE_HOME yes

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

Fix

Configure TOSS 5 to assign home directories to all new local interactive users by setting the "CREATE_HOME" parameter in "/etc/login.defs" to "yes" as follows.

CREATE_HOME yes

Identifiers

Group ID
V-282721
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-282721r1201143_rule
Check ID
C-87282r1201141_chk
Fix ID
F-87187r1201142_fix