Title

IBM z/OS UNIX groups must be defined with a unique GID. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors). Organizational users (and processes acting on behalf of users) must be uniquely identified and authenticated to all accesses, except for the following: 1) Accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization. Organizations document specific user actions that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication; and 2) Accesses that occur through authorized use of group authenticators without individual authentication. Organizations may require unique identification of individuals in group accounts (e.g., shared privilege accounts) or for detailed accountability of individual activity.

Check Content

From an ACF Command screen enter: SET PROFILE(GROUP) DIVISION(OMVS) LIST LIKE(-) If each of the definitions have a unique GID, this is not a finding.

Fix Text

Define each UNIX group with a unique GID.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-223636r533198_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-223636

Group Title: SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

Controls tied to check. These are derived from the CCIs shown above.