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>