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V-257930CAT II — Medium severitySV-257930r1268251_rule

All RHEL 9 local files and directories must have a valid group owner.

Rule version RHEL-09-232250 · STIG v2 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

Files without a valid group owner may be unintentionally inherited if a group is assigned the same Group Identifier (GID) as the GID of the files without a valid group owner.

Check

Verify all local files and directories on RHEL 9 have a valid group with the following command:

$ df --local -P | awk {'if (NR!=1) print $6'} | sudo xargs -I '{}' find '{}' -xdev -nogroup

If any files on the system do not have an assigned group, this is a finding.

Fix

Either remove all files and directories from RHEL 9 that do not have a valid group, or assign a valid group to all files and directories on the system with the "chgrp" command:

$ sudo chgrp <group> <file>

Identifiers

Group ID
V-257930
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-257930r1268251_rule
Check ID
C-61671r925775_chk
Fix ID
F-61595r925776_fix