>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> Ideally, crontab wouldn't be suid/gid _anything_ and
Michael> users own their own crontab file, but perhaps I've said
Michael> too much. :)
Where, exactly, would you store the users crontab file?
It can't go in their home directory. Consider a machine with 10000
accounts, and all the home directories NFS mounted via amd. Imagine
what happens the first time cron scans for file modtimes. (Which it
has to do unless it has sole control over the users crontab file, which
it doesn't in this scenario.)
You can't use a 1777 directory, since that lets others DOS your
ability to create a crontab (even though the rogue file they dropped in
wouldn't be run by a reassonable cron).
I like the idea, but please show us a working design.
--lyndon
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