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

From AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Associated with IA controls: ECLP-1

Associated with: CCI-000225

SV-38690r1_rule The root account's home directory must not have an extended ACL.

Vulnerability discussion

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

Check content

Verify the root account's home directory has no extended ACL. Procedure: # aclget ~root If extended permissions are enabled, the directory has an extended ACL, and this is a finding.

Fix text

Remove the extended ACL from the root account's home directory. #acledit ~root Change extended attributes to disabled.

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