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V-258048CAT II — Medium severitySV-258048r1069380_rule

All RHEL 9 interactive users must have a primary group that exists.

Rule version RHEL-09-411045 · STIG v2 · 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 that all RHEL 9 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 the system so that all GIDs are 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-258048
Group title
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
Rule ID
SV-258048r1069380_rule
Check ID
C-61789r1069379_chk
Fix ID
F-61713r926130_fix