Bad Minute crontab error in cron.deny file (Level1, task 13)

KodeKloud Engineer
#1

Hi Team,
During the task (description is below) I get an error in crond status:

Nov 06 21:55:01 stapp01.stratos.xfusioncorp.com crond[692]: (CRON) bad minute (/etc/cron.d/cron.allow)
Nov 06 21:55:01 stapp01.stratos.xfusioncorp.com crond[692]: (CRON) bad minute (/etc/cron.d/cron.deny)

My actions:

sudo su
vi /etc/cron.d/cron.allow
vi /etc/cron.d/cron.deny
stemctl restart crond.service

Users exist in the system, cron.allow and cron.deny files exist in cron.d directory indeed, and include only the name of the user without any symbols nor spaces.

Task description:

To stick with the security compliances, the Nautilus project team has decided to apply some restrictions on crontab access so that only allowed users can create/update the cron jobs. Limit crontab access to below specified users on App Server 1.

Allow crontab access to james user and deny the same to garrett user.

Really appreciate your help :pray:

#2

solved by creating cron.allow and cron.deny files in /etc directory, and not /etc/cron.d

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