CCE-90911-9Platform: rhel7,centos7 | Date: (C)2017-06-29 (M)2022-10-10 |
Ensure /var Located On Separate Partition
The '/var' directory is used by daemons and other system
services to store frequently-changing data. Ensure that '/var' has its own partition
or logical volume at installation time, or migrate it using LVM.
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Ensuring that '/var' is mounted on its own partition enables the
setting of more restrictive mount options. This helps protect
system services such as daemons or other programs which use it.
It is not uncommon for the '/var' directory to contain
world-writable directories installed by other software packages.
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SCAP Repo OVAL Definition | oval:org.secpod.oval:def:30567 |
SCAP Repo OVAL Definition | oval:org.secpod.oval:def:31290 |