Hi, On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:08:08AM -0400, David Prévot wrote: ... > $ ls -la /usr/bin/crontab > - -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 34048 sept. 18 17:21 /usr/bin/crontab > > That's the reason why it's setgid crontab actually, to prevent the user > to edit directly /var/spool/cron/crontabs/<user>, and force him to use > the “crontab -e” command, as explained in the FILES section of crontab(5).
In short, you guys are right. I had a bad experience of creating crontab for my normal user at one time. That is why I wrote this. But cron seems to have moved from setuid-root to setgid in 2001 and stabilized around 2003 as I see in the changelog. This may have been due to my misconfiguration of crontab file permission setting. So this section needs update. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
