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RHEL-08-010780 - All RHEL 8 local files and directories must 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 RHEL 8 with the "chown" command:$ sudo chown <user> <file>
See Also
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_RHEL_8_V2R7_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 STIG v2r7
Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-230326r1069284_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-08-010780, Vuln-ID|V-230326
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: d8714a9bd75e58d2690b77823f96eb77ca7e8089aab61543a7d610bb930a8555