Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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Version

V1 · R18

CurrentPublished Fri Apr 28 2017

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

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

Description

Discussion Text

File system extended ACLs provide access to files beyond what is allowed by the unix permissions of the files.

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Objective

V-22309

Rule

SV-37358r2_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

GEN000930

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Check the root account's home directory has no extended ACL.

# find ~root -type d -prune -exec 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.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Remove the extended ACL from the root account's home directory.
# setfacl --remove-all <root home directory>

STIG check 95 of 571 in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 STIG checklist

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