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V-257843

CAT II (Medium)

A separate RHEL 9 file system must be used for user home directories (such as /home or an equivalent).

Rule ID

SV-257843r991589_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R8

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

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

Check Content

Verify that a separate file system/partition has been created for "/home" with the following command:

$ mount | grep /home

UUID=fba5000f-2ffa-4417-90eb-8c54ae74a32f on /home type ext4 (rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,seclabel)

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

Fix Text

Migrate the "/home" directory onto a separate file system/partition.