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AIX7-00-001033 – AIX 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 – invscout

Details

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

Solution

Remove default system accounts (such as bin, sys, adm, or lpd) from the ‘cron.allow’ file, or add those accounts to the ‘cron.deny’ file.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

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Updated on July 16, 2022
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