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All SLEM 5 files and directories must have a valid owner.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Unowned files and directories may be unintentionally inherited if a user is assigned the same User Identifier (UID) as the UID of the unowned files.

ID
SV-261303r996382_rule
Version
SLEM-05-232090
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Either remove all files and directories from SLEM 5 that do not have a valid user or assign a valid user to all unowned files and directories on the system with the "chown" command:

     > sudo chown <user     > <file>