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V-248646CAT II — Medium severitySV-248646r991589_rule

All OL 8 files and directories must have a valid owner.

Rule version OL08-00-010780 · STIG v2 · 2026-08-24

Discussion

Unowned files and directories may be unintentionally inherited if a user is assigned the same User Identifier "UID" as the UID of the unowned files.

Check

Verify all files and directories on OL 8 have a valid owner with the following command:

$ sudo find / -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 OL 8 with the "chown" command:

$ sudo chown <user> <file>

Identifiers

Group ID
V-248646
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-248646r991589_rule
Check ID
C-52080r779502_chk
Fix ID
F-52034r779503_fix