STIGUI
V-223636CAT II — Medium severitySV-223636r1226091_rule

IBM z/OS UNIX groups must be defined with a unique GID.

Rule version ACF2-US-000210 · STIG v9 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system.

Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors). Organizational users (and processes acting on behalf of users) must be uniquely identified and authenticated to all accesses, except for the following:

1) Accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization. Organizations document specific user actions that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication; and

2) Accesses that occur through authorized use of group authenticators without individual authentication. Organizations may require unique identification of individuals in group accounts (e.g., shared privilege accounts) or for detailed accountability of individual activity.

Check

From an ACF Command screen enter: SET PROFILE(GROUP) DIVISION(OMVS) LIST LIKE(-)

If each of the definitions have a unique GID, this is not a finding.

Fix

Define each UNIX group with a unique GID.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-223636
Group title
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
Rule ID
SV-223636r1226091_rule
Check ID
C-25309r501045_chk
Fix ID
F-25297r501046_fix