STIGUI
V-281075CAT II — Medium severitySV-281075r1268226_rule

RHEL 10 must be configured so that all local files and directories must have a valid owner.

Rule version RHEL-10-400290 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-17

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 RHEL 10 is configured so that all local files and directories 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 RHEL 10 so that all local files and directories must have a valid owner.

Either remove all files and directories that do not have a valid user from the system, or assign a valid user to all unowned files and directories on RHEL 10 with the "chown" command:

$ sudo chown <user> <file>

Identifiers

Group ID
V-281075
Group title
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
Rule ID
SV-281075r1268226_rule
Check ID
C-85636r1165578_chk
Fix ID
F-85541r1165579_fix