On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 17 May 2008, King Spook wrote:
crontab -e does not error out when run as root.
crontab -u myuser -e, when run as root, does create a crontab,
which appears to be owned by root, grouped by root, and with rw
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 18 May 2008, King Spook wrote:
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So I checked mine using, and you were right in that the permissions
were different. So then I tried to make them mirror yours using:
sudo chmod u=rwx,g=rs,o=x /usr/bin/crontab
I'm having trouble getting cron to be usable by normal users.
I'm running vixie-cron 4.1-r10 on Gentoo Linux. My user is a member of
both cron and crontab groups (being unsure which I needed, but
speculating the former). There is no cron.allow, and an empty
cron.deny file in /etc.
Every time I
I was looking at my users and groups on my box, and I realized that
certain services add user accounts with specific UIDs, but then just
gets the next GID for it's corresponding group. I know I, personally,
would like to have the UIDs and GIDs match (and I spent the time with
usermod, groupmod,
Well, naturally I wasn't going to file a bug unless someone told me
they were supposed to have matching uids/gids.
It just seemed odd, for example, to have clamav's uid=103, and it's gid=1004.
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