On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Trevor Forbes wrote: > W.Kenworthy wrote: > > Cant believe I am the only one who has this - 3 systems I have > > checked so far are all the same - root cant access its crontab. > > Ive tried rebuilding one without pam (fcron only), but no change. > > [Bug 171998] sys-process/fcron-3.0.2-r1 - root can't list/edit > cronjobs.
Getting a little OT here, but I find that a very interesting bug report. It seems sensible that adding root to the fcron group would fix the problem, but this raises an interesting question: Permissions are enforced by the kernel, which suspends all permission checks when the user is uid 0. This bug implies that a userspace program is altering root's level of access, which is fundamentally not allowed in *nix. It's not pam doing it, as one of the respondents states he does not use pam. So what's going on? alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [email protected] mailing list
