Title

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that all files and directories have a valid owner. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

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.

Check Content

Verify all files and directories on the system have a valid owner. Check the owner of all files and directories with the following command: Note: The value after -fstype must be replaced with the filesystem type. XFS is used as an example. # find / -fstype xfs -nouser If any files on the system do not have an assigned owner, this is a finding.

Fix Text

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 the system with the "chown" command: # chown <user> <file>

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-204463r853897_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-204463

Group Title: SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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