STIGUI
V-216191CAT II — Medium severitySV-216191r959010_rule

Duplicate Group IDs (GIDs) must not exist for multiple groups.

Rule version SOL-11.1-070120 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

User groups must be assigned unique GIDs for accountability and to ensure appropriate access protections.

Check

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.

Fix

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.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216191
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216191r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17429r372955_chk
Fix ID
F-17427r372956_fix