The cron.deny file must be owned by root, bin, or sys.

From SOLARIS 10 X86 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Associated with IA controls: ECLP-1

Associated with: CCI-000225

SV-27371r1_rule The cron.deny file must be owned by root, bin, or sys.

Vulnerability discussion

Cron daemon control files restrict the scheduling of automated tasks and must be protected.

Check content

Check the ownership of the cron.deny file. # ls -lL /etc/cron.d/cron.deny If the cron.deny file is not owned by root, sys, or bin, this is a finding.

Fix text

Change the ownership of the cron.deny file to root, sys, or bin. # chown root /etc/cron.d/cron.deny

Pro Tips

Lavender hyperlinks in small type off to the right (of CSS class id, if you view the page source) point to globally unique URIs for each document and item. Copy the link location and paste anywhere you need to talk unambiguously about these things.

You can obtain data about documents and items in other formats. Simply provide an HTTP header Accept: text/turtle or Accept: application/rdf+xml.