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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 1996 16:09:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Y Ng <ayn@rocket.Ngbert.org>
To:        Dmitry Valdov <dv@kis.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: crontab security hole
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.961216160824.20696A-100000@rocket.Ngbert.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.FBSD.3.95.961216110312.12040B-100000@xkis.kis.ru>

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well, just disallow certain "dangerous" user for setting up cron jobs.
or just allow some "good" users to setup cron jobs... :)

/ayn

On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Dmitry Valdov wrote:
> Are there any fixes for crontab? I've exploit which allow any user to become
> root using crontab security hole.

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