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V-11995

CAT II (Medium)

Default system accounts (with the exception of root) must not be listed in the cron.allow file or must be included in the cron.deny file, if cron.allow does not exist.

Rule ID

SV-46275r1_rule

STIG

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

Version

V1R12

CCIs

CCI-000225

Discussion

To centralize the management of privileged account crontabs, of the default system accounts, only root may have a crontab.

Check Content

Check the cron.allow and cron.deny files for the system.
# more /etc/cron.allow
# more /etc/cron.deny
If a default system account (such as bin, sys, adm, or others, traditionally UID less than 500) is listed in the cron.allow file, or not listed in the cron.deny file and if no cron.allow file exists, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Remove default system accounts (such as bin, sys, adm, or others, traditionally UID less than 500) from the cron.allow file if it exists, or add those accounts to the cron.deny file.