[gentoo-user] /etc/group modifications [WAS] cron and crontab

2003-08-21 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 21 August 2003 11:16, oleander wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:00:06 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To use cron as an unpriveleged user, that user must be in the cron group in /etc/group. Once that is done, logout and login again to update permissions, after which

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/group modifications [WAS] cron and crontab

2003-08-21 Thread Bryan Feir
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:54:45PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2003 11:16, oleander wrote: it's kind of silly but you could do: % sg cron -c 'crontab -e' from the current shell after being added to cron group. that prevents a logout at least. or newgrp cron, too.