Title

All RHEL 9 local files and directories must 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 unowned files.

Check Content

Verify all local files and directories on RHEL 9 have a valid owner with the following command: $ df --local -P | awk {'if (NR!=1) print $6'} | sudo xargs -I '{}' find '{}' -xdev -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 RHEL 9 with the "chown" command: $ sudo chown <user> <file>

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-257931r925780_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-257931

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

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