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V-978

CAT II (Medium)

Crontab files must have mode 0600 or less permissive.

Rule ID

SV-45600r2_rule

STIG

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v11 for System z Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R12

CCIs

CCI-000225

Discussion

To protect the integrity of scheduled system jobs and prevent malicious modification to these jobs, crontab files must be secured.

Check Content

Check the mode of the crontab files.
# ls -lL /etc/crontab /var/spool/cron/ /var/spool/cron/tabs/


If any crontab file has a mode more permissive than 0600, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Change the mode of the crontab files.
# chmod 0600 /var/spool/cron/* /etc/cron.d/* /etc/crontab
# chmod 0600 /etc/crontab /var/spool/cron/* /var/spool/cron/tabs/*