All RHEL 8 local 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 un-owned files.
- ID
- SV-230326r1017137_rule
- Version
- RHEL-08-010780
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Either remove all files and directories from the system that do not have a valid user, or assign a valid user to all unowned files and directories on RHEL 8 with the "chown" command:
$ sudo chown <user> <file>