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V-258048

CAT II (Medium)

All RHEL 9 interactive users must have a primary group that exists.

Rule ID

SV-258048r1069380_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R8

CCIs

CCI-000764

Discussion

If a user is assigned the Group Identifier (GID) of a group that does not exist on the system, and a group with the GID is subsequently created, the user may have unintended rights to any files associated with the group.

Check Content

Verify that all RHEL 9 interactive users have a valid GID.

Check that the interactive users have a valid GID with the following command:

$ sudo pwck -r

If pwck reports "no group" for any interactive user, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the system so that all GIDs are referenced in "/etc/passwd" are defined in "/etc/group".

Edit the file "/etc/passwd" and ensure that every user's GID is a valid GID.