didds wrote:
> Following a client's security update to various hpux servers, its now
> my turn to do similar things to their historical sun servers. Its
> nothing too deep but we are having a debate over whether their current
> permissions on their cron.allow and cron.deny files are in fact
> "default" for solaris or not (solaris 9).
>
> current perms are 644, which seems sensible to me.
>
> I've googled for a "definitive" default perms for these files but to no
> avail... anybody have any other ideas?
>
> cheers
>
> ian
>

I've Solaris 10 and have never bothered touching those files (its a home
computer, so I have no need to). But there is no cron.allow, only a
cron.deny.


teal /etc % ls -l /etc/cron.d
total 6
prw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 4 09:44 FIFO
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 40 Jan 21 2005 at.deny
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 40 Jan 21 2005 cron.deny
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 17 Jan 21 2005 queuedefs



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