GEN003100 - Cron and crontab directories must have mode 0755 or less permissive.

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 directory.
# chmod 0755 /var/spool/cron/crontabs

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_SOL_10_SPARC_V2R4_STIG.zip

Item Details

Audit Name: DISA STIG Solaris 10 SPARC v2r4

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-226622r603265_rule, STIG-ID|GEN003100, STIG-Legacy|SV-27342, STIG-Legacy|V-979, Vuln-ID|V-226622

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 95cd5bfe9f61807a4a305e4847810901b8cbe5a342bf9fc1646eecbde8b572fd