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

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-215276	AIX7-00-002085	SV-215276r508663_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	2022-06-06

Details

Check Text ( C-16474r294279_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.

Check Text ( C-16474r294279_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-16472r294280_fix)
Change the owner of a user's home directory to its assigned user using command: # chown