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The root account's home directory must not have an extended ACL.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-22309 GEN000930 SV-37358r1_rule ECLP-1 Medium
Description
File system extended ACLs provide access to files beyond what is allowed by the unix permissions of the files.
STIG Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2014-07-07

Details

Check Text ( C-36046r1_chk )
Check the root account's home directory has no extended ACL.

# grep "^root" /etc/passwd | awk -F":" '{print $6}'

# ls -ld

If the permissions include a '+' the directory has an extended ACL. If the file has an extended ACL and it has not been documented with the IAO, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-31290r1_fix)
Remove the extended ACL from the root account's home directory.
# setfacl --remove-all