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V-235029CAT II — Medium severitySV-235029r991589_rule

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

Rule version SLES-15-040410 · STIG v2 · 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 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.

> sudo 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-235029
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-235029r991589_rule
Check ID
C-38217r619356_chk
Fix ID
F-38180r619357_fix