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V-282628CAT II — Medium severitySV-282628r1200864_rule

The TOSS 5 /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file must be group owned by root.

Rule version TOSS-05-000095 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

The "root" group is a highly privileged group. Furthermore, the group owner of this file should not have any access privileges.

Check

Verify the group ownership of the "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file using the following command:

$ sudo stat -c "%G %n" /boot/grub2/grub.cfg 

root /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

If "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file does not have a group owner of "root", this is a finding.

Fix

Change the group of the file /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to root using the following command:

$ sudo chgrp root /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Identifiers

Group ID
V-282628
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-282628r1200864_rule
Check ID
C-87189r1200862_chk
Fix ID
F-87094r1200863_fix