STIGUI
V-274159CAT II — Medium severitySV-274159r1120465_rule

Amazon Linux 2023 must insure all interactive users have a primary group that exists.

Rule version AZLX-23-002480 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

If a user is assigned the group identifier (GID) of a group that does not exist on the system, and a group with the GID is subsequently created, the user may have unintended rights to any files associated with the group.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051, SRG-OS-000121-GPOS-00062, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020

Check

Verify Amazon Linux 2023 interactive users have a valid GID with the following command:

$ sudo pwck -qr 

If the system has any interactive users with duplicate GIDs, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure Amazon Linux 2023 so that all GIDs are referenced in "/etc/passwd" are defined in "/etc/group".

Edit the file "/etc/passwd" and ensure that every user's GID is a valid GID.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-274159
Group title
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
Rule ID
SV-274159r1120465_rule
Check ID
C-78250r1120463_chk
Fix ID
F-78155r1120464_fix