I doubt that. On my Gentoo box with Vixie-Cron I can find following
statements in the crontab:

*/10  *  * * *  root    test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons

which means it is more or less hardcoded that root runs the script,
and relys on the correct system setup.

regards,

Lars

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Alexander Klimetschek <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Felix Meschberger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yes, exactly. It is just like in unix, where we rely on the correct
>> system setup.
>
> Not exactly. To cite Bertrand:
>
> Unixish systems solve this by using the identity of the user who owns
> the script (unless the setuid flag is set), and enforcing the way this
> identity can be set - but we don't have that kind of feature in JCR,
> or do we?
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> --
> Alexander Klimetschek
> [email protected]
>

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