Default system accounts (with the exception of root) must not be listed in the cron.allow file or must be included in the cron.deny file, if cron.allow does not exist.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
GEN003060-ESXI5-PNF	GEN003060-ESXI5-PNF	GEN003060-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
To centralize the management of privileged account crontabs, of the default system accounts, only root may have a crontab. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - Not a General Purpose (GP) OS. VMware's ESXi-v5 is a multi-user kernel where all users are "administrator" with either: Administrator with Full and partial (configurable) privileges, Read-only, or No Access. In this case, the file owner, group-owner and mode(s) have no meaning.

Description

To centralize the management of privileged account crontabs, of the default system accounts, only root may have a crontab. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - Not a General Purpose (GP) OS. VMware's ESXi-v5 is a multi-user kernel where all users are "administrator" with either: Administrator with Full and partial (configurable) privileges, Read-only, or No Access. In this case, the file owner, group-owner and mode(s) have no meaning.

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-GEN003060-ESXI5-PNF_chk )
ESXi supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-GEN003060-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.