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From: mbac@mmap.nyct.net (Michael Bacarella)
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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'.

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Michael Bacarella <mbac@mmap.nyct.net>
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