On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, John Stoffel wrote: > > Scott> Is it possible to prevent cron from executing something in a > Scott> world-readable directory, or a directory branching off a > Scott> world-readable directory? > > Umm... not that I know of. How would you expect cron to know this?
Same way sendmail knows to ignore .forwards in world-writable directories.... > All it has is a list of times and commands to run. Now this list is > stored in a directory/file which should be locked down pretty well. Yes, but the commands it runs can be anywhere... World-readable is probably not too worrisome. World-_writable_ is another story. Scott, are you sure you don't mean world-writeable? > Also, if / is world reable, which it is by default, then you're asking > for cron to NOT run anything underneath that. > > So why don't we backup and try to figure out what you're *really* > asking for here? It's obviously something security related, but what? -- Av8 Internet Prepared to pay a premium for better service? www.av8.net faster, more reliable, better service 617 344 9000 _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
