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Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-08-02 12:21:12 UTC Pool ID sst_security_compliance_rhel_9
Milan Lysonek 2023-08-02 14:22:32 UTC Doc Text .Rules checking home directories apply only to local users

Multiple compliance profiles provided by the `scap-security-guide` package contain rules checking the correct configuration of user home directories.

Specifically, we are talking about these rules:

- accounts_user_interactive_home_directory_exists
- accounts_users_home_files_groupownership
- accounts_user_dot_group_ownership
- accounts_users_home_files_permissions
- accounts_umask_interactive_users
- accounts_user_dot_user_ownership
- file_permissions_home_directories
- file_groupownership_home_directories
- file_ownership_home_directories
- accounts_users_home_files_ownership


Previously, these rules checked not only configuration of local users but they also evaluated configuration of remote users provided by network sources such as NSS. This behavior was caused by using the `getpwent()` system call in the OpenSCAP scanner. This behavior wasn't desired, behavior the remediation scripts weren't able to change the configuration of the remote users.

Therefore, the internal implementation of the aforementioned rules has been changed to depend only on data present in the "/etc/passwd" file. That means no other sources of user metadata are read by the rules. As a result, the rules now consider only local users configuration.
Doc Type If docs needed, set a value Bug Fix
Red Hat One Jira (issues.redhat.com) 2023-08-02 14:23:14 UTC Link ID Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-164212
Vojtech Polasek 2023-08-04 07:58:38 UTC Status NEW POST
Matěj Týč 2023-08-11 12:29:08 UTC Status POST MODIFIED
CC matyc
errata-xmlrpc 2023-08-16 17:01:11 UTC Fixed In Version scap-security-guide-0.1.69-1.el9_2
Status MODIFIED ON_QA

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