STIGUI
V-258061CAT II — Medium severitySV-258061r958482_rule

RHEL 9 groups must have unique Group ID (GID).

Rule version RHEL-09-411110 · STIG v2 · 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 that RHEL 9 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

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

Identifiers

Group ID
V-258061
Group title
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
Rule ID
SV-258061r958482_rule
Check ID
C-61802r926168_chk
Fix ID
F-61726r926169_fix