All RHEL 9 local 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-257930r991589_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Either remove all files and directories from RHEL 9 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>