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The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that all files and directories have a valid group owner.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

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

ID
SV-204464r853898_rule
Version
RHEL-07-020330
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Either remove all files and directories from the system that do not have a valid group, or assign a valid group to all files and directories on the system with the "chgrp" command:

# chgrp <group> <file>