Duplicate Group IDs (GIDs) must not exist for multiple groups.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-216428	SOL-11.1-070120	SV-216428r603267_rule		Medium

Description
User groups must be assigned unique GIDs for accountability and to ensure appropriate access protections.

STIG	Date
Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide	2021-11-23

Details

Check Text ( C-17664r371372_chk )
The root role is required. Check that group IDs are unique. # getent group | cut -f3 -d":" | sort -n | uniq -c |\ while read x ; do [ -z "${x}" ] && break set - $x if [ $1 -gt 1 ]; then grps=`getent group | nawk -F: '($3 == n) { print $1 }' n=$2 | xargs` echo "Duplicate GID ($2): ${grps}" fi done If output is produced, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-17662r371373_fix)
The root role is required. Work with each respective group owner to remediate this issue and ensure that the group ownership of their files are set to an appropriate value.