SV-281177r1184748: RHEL 10 must assign a home directory to all local interactive users in the "/etc/passwd" file. | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 STIG SCAP Benchmark

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

RHEL 10 must assign a home directory to all local interactive users in the "/etc/passwd" file.

Description

Discussion Text

If local interactive users are not assigned a valid home directory, there is no place for the storage and control of files they should own.

How this relates to the STIG checklist: STIG vs SCAP benchmark.

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Not mappedCCI-002385

References

DPMS Target Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 DISA DPMS Target Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 5733

SCC Automation Reference

The reconstructed evaluation script behind this rule's OVAL check(s) — every module a compound check combines, with this rule's own concrete values and DISA's SCC tool's real per-module mechanism curated from static teardown of SCC releases.

#!/bin/bash
# Reconstructed from oval:mil.disa.stig.rhel10os:def:281177
# RHEL 10 must assign a home directory to all local interactive users in the "/etc/passwd" file.
# Per-module read mechanism curated from static teardown of DISA's SCC tool
# (SCAP Compliance Checker) -- see the SCC Automation Reference above.

# Check for local non-system users in /etc/passwd without a home directory defined
# password_object (password_test)
test_1() {
  (getent passwd '[\w]+' | cut -d: -f6) | grep -Pq '.+'
}
# Check /etc/passwd if root has a home directory defined
# password_object (password_test)
test_2() {
  (getent passwd '[\w]+' | cut -d: -f6) | grep -Pq '.+'
}

if ( test_1 && test_2 ); then
  echo "PASS"
else
  echo "FAIL"
fi

Assessment Script Powered by AISandbox-executed

A standalone Shell script to assess this control automatically. Review before running it in your environment.

Syntax-checked and actually executed in an isolated sandbox (not the real system this checks) — confirmed to run without errors.

#!/bin/sh
# OVAL Definition: oval:mil.disa.stig.rhel10os:def:281177
if [ ! -f "/etc/passwd" ]; then echo "PASS"; exit 0; fi
users=$(cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd); for user in $users; do home=$(cut -d: -f6 /etc/passwd | grep "^$user" | tr -d ':'); if [ -z "$home" ] || [ ! -d "$home" ]; then echo "FAIL"; exit 1; fi; done; echo "PASS"; exit 0;

Remediation

Configure RHEL 10 interactive users to have a home directory assigned in the "/etc/passwd" file.

Create and assign home directories to all local interactive users on RHEL 10 that do not have a home directory assigned.