The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that all files and directories have a valid group owner.

From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-002165

SV-86633r3_rule The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that all files and directories have a valid group owner.

Vulnerability discussion

Files without a valid group owner may be unintentionally inherited if a group is assigned the same Group Identifier (GID) as the GID of the files without a valid group owner.

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Verify all files and directories on the system have a valid group. Check the owner of all files and directories with the following command: Note: The value after -fstype must be replaced with the filesystem type. XFS is used as an example. # find / -fstype xfs -nogroup If any files on the system do not have an assigned group, this is a finding.

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Either remove all files and directories from the system that do not have a valid group, or assign a valid group to all files and directories on the system with the "chgrp" command: # chgrp

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