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Crontabs must be owned by root or the crontab creator.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-11994 GEN003040 SV-27333r1_rule DCSL-1 Medium
Description
To protect the integrity of scheduled system jobs and prevent malicious modification to these jobs, crontab files must be secured.
STIG Date
AIX 5.3 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE 2014-10-03

Details

Check Text ( C-28469r1_chk )
List all crontabs on the system.
# ls -lL /var/spool/cron/crontabs/

If any crontab is not owned by root or the creating user, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-11255r2_fix)
Change the crontab owner to root or the crontab creator.
# chown root