All interactive users' home directories must be group-owned by the home directory owner's primary group.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
GEN001520-ESXI5-PNF	GEN001520-ESXI5-PNF	GEN001520-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
If the GID of the home directory is not the same as the GID of the user, this would allow unauthorized access to files. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - Not a General Purpose (GP) OS. VMware's ESXi-v5 is a multi-user kernel where all users are "administrator" with either: Administrator with Full and partial (configurable) privileges, Read-only, or No Access. In this case, the file owner, group-owner and mode(s) have no meaning.

Description

If the GID of the home directory is not the same as the GID of the user, this would allow unauthorized access to files. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - Not a General Purpose (GP) OS. VMware's ESXi-v5 is a multi-user kernel where all users are "administrator" with either: Administrator with Full and partial (configurable) privileges, Read-only, or No Access. In this case, the file owner, group-owner and mode(s) have no meaning.

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-GEN001520-ESXI5-PNF_chk )
ESXi supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-GEN001520-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.