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V-4430

CAT II (Medium)

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

Rule ID

SV-45644r1_rule

STIG

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

Version

V1R12

CCIs

Discussion

Cron daemon control files restrict the scheduling of automated tasks and must be protected.

Check Content

# ls -lL /etc/cron.deny
If the cron.deny file is not owned by root, sys, or bin, this is a finding.

Fix Text

# chown root /etc/cron.deny