GEN003040 - Crontabs must be owned by root or the crontab creator.

Information

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

Solution

Change the crontab owner to root or the crontab creator.
# chown root <crontab file>

See Also

http://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_STIG_Library_2015_07.zip

Item Details

Audit Name: DISA AIX 5.3 STIG v1r2

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000225, CSCv6|3.1, Rule-ID|SV-27333r1_rule, STIG-ID|GEN003040, Vuln-ID|V-11994

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: cf97820a47dbd3dd66216d27f89022a4cd840d943c340f8aa90ffb9b7879bf5d