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V-281174CAT II — Medium severitySV-281174r1166474_rule

RHEL 10 must assign a primary group to all interactive users.

Rule version RHEL-10-600150 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-17

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 RHEL 10 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 RHEL 10 so that all GIDs 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-281174
Group title
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
Rule ID
SV-281174r1166474_rule
Check ID
C-85735r1166472_chk
Fix ID
F-85640r1166473_fix