STIGUI
V-271834CAT II — Medium severitySV-271834r1208734_rule

OL 9 interactive users must have a primary group that exists.

Rule version OL09-00-003005 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

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 OL 9 interactive users have a valid GID.

Check that the interactive users have a valid GID with the following command:

$ sudo pwck -r

If pwck reports "no group" for any interactive user, this is a finding.

Fix

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

Edit the file "/etc/passwd" and ensure that every user's GID is a valid GID.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271834
Group title
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
Rule ID
SV-271834r1208734_rule
Check ID
C-75884r1208343_chk
Fix ID
F-75791r1092213_fix