STIGUI
V-216438CAT II — Medium severitySV-216438r959010_rule

The root account must be the only account with GID of 0.

Rule version SOL-11.1-070220 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

All accounts with a GID of 0 have root group privileges and must be limited to the group account only.

Check

Identify any users with GID of 0.

# awk -F: '$4 == 0' /etc/passwd # awk -F: '$3 == 0' /etc/group Confirm the only account with a group id of 0 is root.

If the root account is not the only account with GID of 0, this is a finding.

Fix

The root role is required.

Change the default GID of non-root accounts to a valid GID other than 0.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216438
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216438r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17674r371402_chk
Fix ID
F-17672r371403_fix