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		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-73243r1048012_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.