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All OL 8 files and directories must have a valid group owner.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>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.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-248647r991589_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Either remove all files and directories from OL 8 that do not have a valid group, or assign a valid group to all files and directories on the system with the "chgrp" command: 
 
$ sudo chgrp <group> <file>