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V-280937

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 10 must use a separate file system for user home directories (such as "/home" or an equivalent).

Rule ID

SV-280937r1184727_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-002385

Discussion

Ensuring that "/home" is mounted on its own partition enables the setting of more restrictive mount options and helps ensure that users cannot trivially fill partitions used for log or audit data storage.

Check Content

Verify RHEL 10 uses a separate file system/partition for "/home" with the following command:

$ mount | grep /home
/dev/mapper/luks-ca2261ed-7b00-4b7b-84cd-8cd6d8fa4b28 on /home type xfs (rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,seclabel)
Note: Options displayed for mount may differ.

If a separate entry for "/home" is not in use, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 10 to use a separate file system for user home directories by migrating the "/home" directory onto a separate file system/partition.