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V-258826

CAT II (Medium)

The Photon operating system must not have duplicate User IDs (UIDs).

Rule ID

SV-258826r933539_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000764

Discussion

To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be uniquely identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and provide for nonrepudiation.

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command to verify there are no duplicate user IDs present:

# awk -F ":" 'list[$3]++{print $1, $3}' /etc/passwd

If any lines are returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Navigate to and open:

/etc/passwd

Configure each user account that has a duplicate UID with a unique UID.