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Subject: Re: Permissions on crontab.. 
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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.


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