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V-282491CAT II — Medium severitySV-282491r1200453_rule

TOSS 5 groups must have unique Group ID (GID).

Rule version TOSS-05-000309 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, groups must be identified uniquely to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system.

Check

Verify TOSS 5 contains no duplicate GIDs for interactive users using the following command:

$ cut -d : -f 3 /etc/group | uniq -d

If the system has duplicate GIDs, this is a finding.

Fix

Edit the file "/etc/group" and provide each group that has a duplicate GID with a unique GID.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-282491
Group title
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
Rule ID
SV-282491r1200453_rule
Check ID
C-87052r1200451_chk
Fix ID
F-86957r1200452_fix