Ensure users' home directories permissions are 750 or more restrictive

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Beschreibung

While the system administrator can establish secure permissions for users' home directories, the users can easily override these. Group or world-writable user home directories may enable malicious users to steal or modify other users' data or to gain another user's system privileges.

So wird geprüft

Prüfmethode: Manuelle Prüfung

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Run the following script and verify no results are returned: #!/bin/bash grep -E -v '^(system-halt|sync|system-shutdown)' /etc/passwd | awk -F: '($7 != "'"$(which nologin)"'" && $7 != "/bin/false") { print $1 " " $6 }' | while read user dir; do if [ ! -d "$dir" ]; then echo "The home directory ($dir) of user $user does not exist." else dirperm=$(ls -ld $dir | cut -f1 -d" ") if [ $(echo $dirperm | cut -c6) != "-" ]; then echo "Group Write permission set on the home directory ($dir) of user $user" fi if [ $(echo $dirperm | cut -c8) != "-" ]; then echo "Other Read permission set on the home directory ($dir) of user $user" fi if [ $(echo $dirperm | cut -c9) != "-" ]; then echo "Other Write permission set on the home directory ($dir) of user $user" fi if [ $(echo $dirperm | cut -c10) != "-" ]; then echo "Other Execute permission set on the home directory ($dir) of user $user" fi fi done

So wird behoben

Behebungsmethode: Anleitung oder Infrastruktur-Patch

Making global modifications to user home directories without alerting the user community can result in unexpected outages and unhappy users. Therefore, it is recommended that a monitoring policy be established to report user file permissions and determine the action to be taken in accordance with site policy.

Eigenschaften

Betriebssysteme: Beliebig
Tags: access-controlcontainer-optimized-oscos
Referenz: CIS Google Container-Optimized OS Benchmark v1.2.0 - 6.2.8 Ensure users' home directories permissions are 750 or more restrictive