STIGUI
V-271835CAT II — Medium severitySV-271835r1092217_rule

OL 9 groups must have unique Group ID (GID).

Rule version OL09-00-003006 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, groups must be identified uniquely to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system.

Check

Verify that OL 9 contains no duplicate GIDs for interactive users with the following command:

$  cut -d : -f 3 /etc/group | uniq -d

If the system has duplicate GIDs, this is a finding.

Fix

Edit the file "/etc/group" and provide each group that has a duplicate GID with a unique GID.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271835
Group title
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
Rule ID
SV-271835r1092217_rule
Check ID
C-75885r1092215_chk
Fix ID
F-75792r1092216_fix