Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:08:44 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Michael Bacarella <mbac@mmap.nyct.net>, void <float@firedrake.org>, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Permissions on crontab.. Message-ID: <200101181108.aa07764@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:42:36 %2B0200." <20010118094236.A7426@rapier.smartspace.co.za>
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> They do own their own crontab file. The setgid is for adjusting the > modification time on the crontab directory, to signal to cron that there > has been a change. I think there may be a neat way of dealing with all of this stuff using unix domain sockets with credential and discriptor passing. It wouldn't require crontab to be suid at all, but would still leave the directoires with their current permissions. I'll try to test it if I have time. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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