All local interactive user accounts, upon creation, must be assigned a home directory.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-215005	UBTU-16-010730	SV-215005r508033_rule		Medium

Description
If local interactive users are not assigned a valid home directory, there is no place for the storage and control of files they should own.

STIG	Date
Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Security Technical Implementation Guide	2020-09-03

Details

Check Text ( C-16204r284883_chk )
Verify all local interactive users on the Ubuntu operating system are assigned a home directory upon creation. Check to see if the system is configured to create home directories for local interactive users with the following command: # grep -i create_home /etc/login.defs CREATE_HOME yes If the value for "CREATE_HOME" parameter is not set to "yes", the line is missing, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-16204r284883_chk )

Verify all local interactive users on the Ubuntu operating system are assigned a home directory upon creation.

Check to see if the system is configured to create home directories for local interactive users with the following command:

# grep -i create_home /etc/login.defs
CREATE_HOME yes

If the value for "CREATE_HOME" parameter is not set to "yes", the line is missing, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-16202r284884_fix)
Configure the Ubuntu operating system to assign home directories to all new local interactive users by setting the "CREATE_HOME" parameter in "/etc/login.defs" to "yes" as follows. CREATE_HOME yes