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V-217169CAT II — Medium severitySV-217169r991589_rule

All SUSE operating system files and directories must have a valid group owner.

Rule version SLES-12-010700 · STIG v3 · 2025-11-24

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 SUSE operating system files and directories on the system have a valid group.

Check the owner of all files and directories with the following command:

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

# find / -fstype xfs -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 the SUSE operating system 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-217169
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-217169r991589_rule
Check ID
C-18397r369663_chk
Fix ID
F-18395r369664_fix