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V-282671CAT II — Medium severitySV-282671r1200993_rule

All TOSS 5 local files and directories must have a valid owner.

Rule version TOSS-05-000188 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

Unowned files and directories may be unintentionally inherited if a user is assigned the same user identifier "UID" as the UID of the unowned files.

Check

Verify all local files and directories on TOSS 5 have a valid owner using the following command:

$ df --local -P | awk {'if (NR!=1) print $6'} | sudo xargs -I '{}' find '{}' -xdev -nouser

If any files on the system do not have an assigned owner, this is a finding.

Fix

Either remove all files and directories from the system that do not have a valid user, or assign a valid user to all unowned files and directories on TOSS 5 with the "chown" command:

$ sudo chown <user> <file>

Identifiers

Group ID
V-282671
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-282671r1200993_rule
Check ID
C-87232r1200991_chk
Fix ID
F-87137r1200992_fix