Title

All SUSE operating system 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 that all SUSE operating system 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 SUSE operating 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: # sudo chown <user> <file>

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-217168r854096_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-217168

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

Expert Comments

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