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V-256563CAT II — Medium severitySV-256563r1268251_rule

The Photon operating system must be configured so that all files have a valid owner and group owner.

Rule version PHTN-30-000094 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-31

Discussion

If files do not have valid user and group owners, unintended access to files could occur.

Check

At the command line, run the following command:

# find / -fstype ext4 -nouser -o -nogroup -exec ls -ld {} \; 2>/dev/null

If any files are returned, this is a finding.

Fix

At the command line, run the following command for each returned file:

# chown root:root <file>

Identifiers

Group ID
V-256563
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-256563r1268251_rule
Check ID
C-60238r887361_chk
Fix ID
F-60181r887362_fix