STIGUI
V-269366CAT II — Medium severitySV-269366r1050249_rule

All AlmaLinux OS 9 interactive users must have a primary group that exists.

Rule version ALMA-09-033130 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-25

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.

Check

Verify that all AlmaLinux OS 9 interactive users have a valid GID with the following command:

$ pwck -r /etc/passwd

If the system has any interactive users with a nonexistent primary group, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the system so that all GIDs referenced in "/etc/passwd" are defined in "/etc/group".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-269366
Group title
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
Rule ID
SV-269366r1050249_rule
Check ID
C-73397r1049560_chk
Fix ID
F-73298r1048475_fix