GEN003100 - Cron and crontab directories must have mode 0755 or less permissive - '/etc/crontab'

Information

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

Solution

Change the mode of the crontab directories.
# chmod 0755 <crontab directory>

See Also

http://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_RedHat_5_V1R18_STIG.zip

Item Details

Audit Name: DISA STIG for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 v1r18 Audit

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-6, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000225, Group-ID|V-979, Rule-ID|SV-37470r1_rule, STIG-ID|GEN003100, Vuln-ID|V-979

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 87cc56c6e62a2a3b9be8da35bf018f7edd729b0d1995f70fd0f1a4d7d37a7a84