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V-261303

CAT II (Medium)

All SLEM 5 files and directories must have a valid owner.

Rule ID

SV-261303r996382_rule

STIG

SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro (SLEM) 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R4

CCIs

CCI-000366

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 Content

Verify that all SLEM 5 files and directories on the system have a valid owner with the following command:

Note: The value after -fstype must be replaced with the filesystem type. XFS is used as an example.

     > sudo find / -fstype xfs -nouser

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

Fix Text

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

     > sudo chown <user     > <file>