STIGUI
V-281202CAT II — Medium severitySV-281202r1166558_rule

RHEL 10 must have a unique group ID (GID) for each group in "/etc/group".

Rule version RHEL-10-600470 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

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

Check

Verify RHEL 10 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

Configure RHEL 10 to contain no duplicate GIDs for interactive users.

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

Identifiers

Group ID
V-281202
Group title
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
Rule ID
SV-281202r1166558_rule
Check ID
C-85763r1166556_chk
Fix ID
F-85668r1166557_fix