All TOSS local interactive user home directories must have mode 0770 or less permissive.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| medium | V-282760 | SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00230 | TOSS-05-000493 | SV-282760r1201260_rule | 2026-04-01 | 1 |
Description
Users' home directories/folders may contain information of a sensitive nature. Nonprivileged users should coordinate any information sharing with a system administrator (SA) through shared resources.
ℹ️ Check
Verify TOSS 5 limits the ability of nonprivileged users to grant other users direct access to the contents of their home directories/folders.
Ensure the user permissions on all user home directories is set to 770 permissions using the following command:
$ find $(awk -F: '($3>=1000)&&($7 !~ /nologin/){print $6}' /etc/passwd) -maxdepth 0 -not -perm 770 -ls 2> /dev/null
If there is any output, this is a finding.
✔️ Fix
Change the mode of interactive user's home directories to "0770." using the following command:
Note: The example will be for the user "smithj."
$ sudo chmod 0770 /home/smithj