STIGUI
V-269197CAT II — Medium severitySV-269197r1050079_rule

The /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file must be group-owned by root.

Rule version ALMA-09-013330 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-25

Discussion

The "root" group is a highly privileged group. Furthermore, the group-owner of this file should not have any access privileges anyway.

Check

Verify the group ownership of the "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file with the following command:

$ stat -c "%G %n" /boot/grub2/grub.cfg 

root /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

If "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file does not have a group owner of "root", this is a finding.

Fix

Change the group of the file /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to root by running the following command:

$ chgrp root /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Identifiers

Group ID
V-269197
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-269197r1050079_rule
Check ID
C-73228r1047967_chk
Fix ID
F-73129r1047968_fix