A separate file system must be used for user home directories (such as /home or an equivalent).
Overview
| Finding ID | Version | Rule ID | IA Controls | Severity |
| V-269212 | ALMA-09-014980 | SV-269212r1050094_rule | CCI-000366 | medium |
| Description | ||||
| Ensuring that "/home" is mounted on its own partition enables the setting of more restrictive mount options, and also helps ensure that users cannot trivially fill partitions used for log or audit data storage. | ||||
| STIG | Date | |||
| CloudLinux AlmaLinux OS 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide | 2025-05-22 | |||
Details
Check Text (C-269212r1050094_chk)
Verify that a separate file system/partition has been created for "/home" with the following command:
$ mount | grep /home
/dev/mapper/luks-10a20c46-483d-4d12-831f-5328eda18fd1 on /home type xfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota)
If a separate entry for "/home" is not in use, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-73144r1048013_fix)
Migrate the "/home" directory onto a separate file system/partition.