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V-282490CAT II — Medium severitySV-282490r1200450_rule

All TOSS 5 interactive users must have a primary group that exists.

Rule version TOSS-05-000298 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

If a user is assigned the Group Identifier (GID) of a group that does not exist on the system, and a group with the GID is subsequently created, the user may have unintended rights to any files associated with the group.

Check

Verify all TOSS 5 interactive users have a valid GID using the following command:

$ sudo pwck -qr 

If the system has any interactive users with duplicate GIDs, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the system so all GIDs referenced in "/etc/passwd" are defined in "/etc/group".

Edit the file "/etc/passwd" and ensure every user's GID is a valid GID.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-282490
Group title
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
Rule ID
SV-282490r1200450_rule
Check ID
C-87051r1200448_chk
Fix ID
F-86956r1200449_fix