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Date:      Sat, 3 Jan 2004 15:37:09 -0800
From:      "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com>
To:        "'Per olof Ljungmark'" <peo@intersonic.se>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: restrict perms on /etc/crontab
Message-ID:  <003601c3d252$84853720$0201a8c0@aragorn>
In-Reply-To: <3FF2D376.1000108@intersonic.se>

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> Can one restrict permissions on /etc/crontab without creating 
> troubles 
> if there are nothing special in there except what was 
> installed with the 
> system?
> 

Why do you need to?  It should only be writeable by root anyway.  Normal
users can just type crontab -e to make entries into their own personal
crontabs, if needed.

To answer your question, you could probably get away with a chmod of 600
as I think the cron daemon run as root.




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