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V-271781CAT II — Medium severitySV-271781r1092055_rule

OL 9 local files and directories must have a valid owner.

Rule version OL09-00-002512 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

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 that OL 9 local files and directories on OL 9 have a valid owner with the following command:

$ df --local -P | awk {'if (NR!=1) print $6'} | sudo xargs -I '{}' find '{}' -xdev -nouser

If any files on the system do not have an assigned owner, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure OL 9 local files and directories to have a valid owner.

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 9 with the "chown" command:

$ sudo chown <user> <file>

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271781
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-271781r1092055_rule
Check ID
C-75831r1092053_chk
Fix ID
F-75738r1092054_fix