The Photon operating system must be configured so the "/root" path is protected from unauthorized access.

If the "/root" path is accessible to users other than root, unauthorized users could change the root partitions files.

At the command line, run the following command:

# stat -c "%n permissions are %a and owned by %U:%G" /root

Expected result:

/root permissions are 700 and owned by root:root

If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

At the command line, run the following commands:

# chmod 700 /root
# chown root:root /root