STIGUI
V-275634CAT II — Medium severitySV-275634r1147952_rule

Ubuntu OS must uniquely identify interactive users.

Rule version RIIM-OS-411015 · STIG v1 · 2025-10-02

Discussion

To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system.

Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors). Organizational users (and processes acting on behalf of users) must be uniquely identified and authenticated to all accesses, except for the following:

1. Accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization. Organizations document specific user actions that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication; and

2. Accesses that occur through authorized use of group authenticators without individual authentication. Organizations may require unique identification of individuals in group accounts (e.g., shared privilege accounts) or for detailed accountability of individual activity.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051, SRG-OS-000121-GPOS-00062

Check

Verify Ubuntu OS contains no duplicate User IDs (UIDs) for interactive users by using the following command:

     $ awk -F ":" 'list[$3]++{print $1, $3}' /etc/passwd 

If output is produced and the accounts listed are interactive user accounts, this is a finding.

Fix

Edit the file "/etc/passwd" and provide each interactive user account that has a duplicate UID with a unique UID.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-275634
Group title
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
Rule ID
SV-275634r1147952_rule
Check ID
C-79736r1147950_chk
Fix ID
F-79641r1147951_fix