All files and directories must have a valid owner.

From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-002165

SV-86631r2_rule All files and directories must have a valid owner.

Vulnerability discussion

Unowned files and directories may be unintentionally inherited if a user is assigned the same User Identifier "UID" as the UID of the un-owned files.

Check content

Verify all files and directories on the system have a valid owner. 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 -nouser If any files on the system do not have an assigned owner, this is a finding.

Fix text

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 the system with the "chown" command: # chown

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