The cron.deny file must be group-owned by root, bin, sys, or cron.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
GEN003270-ESXI5-PNF	GEN003270-ESXI5-PNF	GEN003270-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Cron daemon control files restrict the scheduling of automated tasks and must be protected. Unauthorized modification of the cron.deny file could result in Denial-of-Service to authorized cron users or could provide unauthorized users with the ability to run cron jobs. 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

Cron daemon control files restrict the scheduling of automated tasks and must be protected. Unauthorized modification of the cron.deny file could result in Denial-of-Service to authorized cron users or could provide unauthorized users with the ability to run cron jobs. 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-GEN003270-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-GEN003270-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.