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V-261304CAT II — Medium severitySV-261304r996384_rule

All SLEM 5 files and directories must have a valid group owner.

Rule version SLEM-05-232095 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

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 SLEM 5 files and directories on the system have a valid group with the following command:

Note: The value after -fstype must be replaced with the filesystem type. XFS is used as an example.

     > sudo find / -fstype xfs -nogroup

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

Fix

Either remove all files and directories from SLEM 5 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-261304
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-261304r996384_rule
Check ID
C-65033r996383_chk
Fix ID
F-64941r995778_fix