A separate RHEL 8 filesystem must be used for user home directories (such as /home or an equivalent).

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-230328	RHEL-08-010800	SV-230328r902723_rule		Medium

Description
The use of separate file systems for different paths can protect the system from failures resulting from a file system becoming full or failing.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-09-11

Details

Check Text ( C-32997r902721_chk )
Verify that a separate file system has been created for non-privileged local interactive user home directories. Check the home directory assignment for all non-privileged users, users with a User Identifier (UID) greater than 1000, on the system with the following command: $ sudo awk -F: '($3>=1000)&&($7 !~ /nologin/){print $1,$3,$6}' /etc/passwd doej 1001 /home/doej publicj 1002 /home/publicj smithj 1003 /home/smithj The output of the command will give the directory/partition that contains the home directories for the non-privileged users on the system (in this example, "/home") and users’ shell. All accounts with a valid shell (such as /bin/bash) are considered interactive users. Check that a file system/partition has been created for the nonprivileged interactive users with the following command: Note: The partition of "/home" is used in the example. $ sudo grep /home /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/... /home xfs defaults,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 If a separate entry for the file system/partition containing the nonprivileged interactive user home directories does not exist, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-32997r902721_chk )

Verify that a separate file system has been created for non-privileged local interactive user home directories.

Check the home directory assignment for all non-privileged users, users with a User Identifier (UID) greater than 1000, on the system with the following command:

$ sudo awk -F: '($3>=1000)&&($7 !~ /nologin/){print $1,$3,$6}' /etc/passwd

doej 1001 /home/doej
publicj 1002 /home/publicj
smithj 1003 /home/smithj

The output of the command will give the directory/partition that contains the home directories for the non-privileged users on the system (in this example, "/home") and users’ shell. All accounts with a valid shell (such as /bin/bash) are considered interactive users.

Check that a file system/partition has been created for the nonprivileged interactive users with the following command:

Note: The partition of "/home" is used in the example.

$ sudo grep /home /etc/fstab

/dev/mapper/... /home xfs defaults,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0

If a separate entry for the file system/partition containing the nonprivileged interactive user home directories does not exist, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-32972r902722_fix)
Migrate the "/home" directory onto a separate file system.