Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 15:37:09 -0800 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> To: "'Per olof Ljungmark'" <peo@intersonic.se>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: restrict perms on /etc/crontab Message-ID: <003601c3d252$84853720$0201a8c0@aragorn> In-Reply-To: <3FF2D376.1000108@intersonic.se>
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> Can one restrict permissions on /etc/crontab without creating > troubles > if there are nothing special in there except what was > installed with the > system? > Why do you need to? It should only be writeable by root anyway. Normal users can just type crontab -e to make entries into their own personal crontabs, if needed. To answer your question, you could probably get away with a chmod of 600 as I think the cron daemon run as root.
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