Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:49:02 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> To: "Pavel Prokharau" <pprokharau@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cron(8) related summer of code project Message-ID: <20080323194902.2fcc6095@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <187fbcb00803230407q549fb9b8va6616d590763f76c@mail.gmail.com> References: <187fbcb00803230407q549fb9b8va6616d590763f76c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:07:08 +0200 "Pavel Prokharau" <pprokharau@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking about updating our cron(8) implementation. This project is > mentioned in ideas list > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-cron-and-atrun. > > For now my proposal is following: > > * update the code base to ISC (OpenBSD already has it for a while) > > * incorporate changes other BSDs has. First of all it's trivial security > fixes OpenBSD has (like strcpy -> strlcpy) > > * atrun(8) improvements as mentioned on ideas page > > * add privilege separation to cron(8). Its code base is really old and > likely to have security bugs. > > I'd like this work to be done a summer of code project. But I'm not sure > if amount of work proposed sufficient for summer of code. > > If you have some ideas about further improvements to cron(8) I'd be glad > hear them and work on it. Not cron, but cron-related. I'd like to see the periodic infrastructure made available to users. This isn't hard, but you have to be careful about security. A last script in each of the daily/weekly/monthly periodic directories that for each user (does each have to ask ala cron? Does it just look for ~/periodic? ???), then runs periodic as that user with the proper arguments. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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