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Finder must be set to always empty Trash securely.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-51271 OSX8-00-01075 SV-65481r1_rule Low
Description
Finder must be set to always empty Trash securely. In Mac OS X Finder can be configured to always securely erase items placed in the Trash. This prevents data placed in the Trash from being restored.
STIG Date
Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG 2015-02-10

Details

Check Text ( C-53619r1_chk )
To check that the finder will only present the option to securely empty trash run the following command as the primary user:

system_profiler SPConfigurationProfileDataType | grep EmptyTrashSecurely | awk '{ print $3 }' | sed 's/;//'

If the result does not return a setting, or the setting is not "1", this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-56071r1_fix)
This should be enforced by a configuration profile.