AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

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Version

V1 · R14

CurrentPublished Fri Oct 26 2018

Crontab files must be group-owned by system, cron, or the crontab creator's primary group.

AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Assessment Title

Rule Text

Crontab files must be group-owned by system, cron, or the crontab creator's primary group.

Description

Discussion Text

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

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Objective

V-22385

Rule

SV-39866r1_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

GEN003050

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Check the group ownership of the crontab files.
# ls -lL /var/spool/cron/crontabs/
If the group owner is not system, cron, or the crontab owner's primary group, this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Change the group owner of the crontab file to system, cron, or the crontab's primary group.
Procedure:
# chgrp cron [crontab file]

STIG check 147 of 506 in the AIX 6.1 STIG checklist

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