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RHEL-07-020320 - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that all files and directories have a valid owner.

Information

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.

Solution

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 <user> <file>

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_RHEL_7_V3R15_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-3(4), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-002165, Rule-ID|SV-204463r991589_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-07-020320, STIG-Legacy|SV-86631, STIG-Legacy|V-72007, Vuln-ID|V-204463

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 73129b37fae3c53e5e5b639a9ed24d4133c9948e2bf5a8b2efe04799b0143350