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V-221724CAT II — Medium severitySV-221724r991589_rule

The Oracle Linux operating system must be configured so that all files and directories have a valid owner.

Rule version OL07-00-020320 · STIG v3 · 2025-05-08

Discussion

Unowned files and directories may be unintentionally inherited if a user is assigned the same User Identifier (UID) as the UID of the un-owned files.

Check

Verify all 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

Either remove all files and directories from the 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:

# chown <user> <file>

Identifiers

Group ID
V-221724
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-221724r991589_rule
Check ID
C-23439r419244_chk
Fix ID
F-23428r419245_fix