Rule version SOL-11.1-070120 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19
User groups must be assigned unique GIDs for accountability and to ensure appropriate access protections.
The root role is required.
Check that group IDs are unique.
# getent group | cut -f3 -d":" | sort -n | uniq -c |\ while read x ; do [ -z "${x}" ] && break set - $x if [ $1 -gt 1 ]; then grps=`getent group | nawk -F: '($3 == n) { print $1 }' n=$2 | xargs` echo "Duplicate GID ($2): ${grps}" fi done
If output is produced, this is a finding.
The root role is required.
Work with each respective group owner to remediate this issue and ensure that the group ownership of their files are set to an appropriate value.