Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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Version

V1 · R18

CurrentPublished Fri Apr 28 2017

All files and directories must have a valid group-owner.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

All files and directories must have a valid group-owner.

Description

Discussion Text

Files without a valid group owner may be unintentionally inherited if a group is assigned the same GID as the GID of the files without a valid group-owner.

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Objective

V-22312

Rule

SV-37165r2_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

GEN001170

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Search the system for files without a valid group-owner.
# find / -ignore_readdir_race -nogroup 
If any files are found, this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Change the group-owner for each file without a valid group-owner.
# chgrp avalidgroup /tmp/a-file-without-a-valid-group-owner

STIG check 98 of 571 in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 STIG checklist

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