All SLEM 5 files and directories must have a valid owner.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-261303	SLEM-05-232090	SV-261303r996382_rule		Medium

Description

Unowned files and directories may be unintentionally inherited if a user is assigned the same User Identifier (UID) as the UID of the unowned files.

STIG	Date
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro (SLEM) 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2025-05-08

Details

Check Text (C-65032r996381_chk)

Verify that all SLEM 5 files and directories on the system have a valid owner with the following command:

Note: The value after -fstype must be replaced with the filesystem type. XFS is used as an example.

> sudo find / -fstype xfs -nouser

If any files on the system do not have a valid owner, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-64940r995775_fix)

Either remove all files and directories from SLEM 5 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:

> sudo chown <user > <file>