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Date:      Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:18:29 +0400
From:      Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/pam.d Makefile cron src/usr.sbin/cron/cron Makefile cron.8 cron.h database.c do_command.c src/usr.sbin/cron/lib Makefile entry.c
Message-ID:  <20070618091829.GT30493@comp.chem.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <20070617184206.C2416@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200706171725.l5HHPr2c092609@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070617184206.C2416@fledge.watson.org>

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On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 06:42:40PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> 
> > Add PAM support to cron(8).  Now cron(8) will skip commands scheduled
> > by unavailable accounts, e.g., those locked, expired, not allowed in at
> > the moment by nologin(5), or whatever, depending on cron's pam.conf(5).
> > This applies to personal crontabs only, /etc/crontab is unaffected.
> >
> > In other words, now the account management policy will apply to
> > commands scheduled by users via crontab(1) so that a user can no
> > longer use cron(8) to set up a delayed backdoor and run commands
> > during periods when the admin doesn't want him to.
> 
> Nice work.  Have you looked at doing something similar for .forward files 
> in Sendmail?

Not yet.  What is Sendmail supposed to do with user's mail
if the account is unavailable for running mail filters, assume
a temporary failure or just file mail to the default mailbox?

-- 
Yar



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