Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:18:42 -0500 From: mbac@mmap.nyct.net (Michael Bacarella) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Permissions on crontab.. Message-ID: <20010117001842.A28301@mmap.nyct.net>
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Why is crontab suid root? I say to myself "To update /var/cron/tabs/ and to signal cron". Could crontab run suid 'cron'? If those are the only two things it needs to do, run cron as gid 'cron' and make /var/cron/tabs/ group writable by 'cron'. -- Michael Bacarella <mbac@mmap.nyct.net> Technical Staff / New York Connect.Net, Ltd Daytime Phone: (212) 581-2831 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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