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All AIX interactive users home directories must be owned by their respective users.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-91761 AIX7-00-002085 SV-101859r1_rule Medium
Description
System binaries are executed by privileged users as well as system services, and restrictive permissions are necessary to ensure that their execution of these programs cannot be co-opted.
STIG Date
IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide 2020-02-24

Details

Check Text ( C-90915r3_chk )
Check the ownership of each user's home directory listed in the "/etc/passwd file":

# cut -d: -f6 /etc/passwd | xargs ls -lLd

drwxr-xr-x 21 root system 4096 Jan 29 09:58 /

drwxr-xr-x 4 bin bin 45056 Jan 24 12:31 /bin

drwxr-xr-x 2 doejohn staff 256 Jan 25 13:18 /home/doejohn

drwxr-xr-x 2 sshd system 256 Aug 11 2017 /home/srvproxy

drwx------ 2 root system 256 Jan 30 12:54 /root

drwxrwxr-x 4 bin bin 256 Mar 23 2017 /usr/sys

drwxrwxr-x 15 root adm 4096 Jan 24 12:26 /var/adm

drwxr-xr-x 6 root system 4096 Jan 24 07:34 /var/adm/invscout

drwxr-xr-x 8 esaadmin system 256 Jan 24 09:02 /var/esa


If any user's home directory is not owned by the assigned user, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-97959r1_fix)
Change the owner of a user's home directory to its assigned user using command:
# chown