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

An XCCDF Rule

Description

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.

ID
SV-230327r1017138_rule
Version
RHEL-08-010790
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Either remove all files and directories from RHEL 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>