[plug] Crontab Permissions

[Russell Steicke]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:30:44AM +0800, Timothy White wrote:
...
> p.s. for reference i ran the same commands on linjeni. The only
> difference I can see is which group the created crontab is in. crontab
> on this box, root on the other. But that doesn't explain why I can't
> create a crontab at all.
> tim at linjeni:~$ ls -l /var/spool/cron/
> total 12
> drwxrwx--T  2 daemon daemon  4096 2005-04-20 03:54 atjobs
> drwxrwx--T  2 daemon daemon  4096 2005-02-18 18:37 atspool
> drwx-wx--T  2 root   crontab 4096 2005-07-18 16:25 crontabs
> tim at linjeni:~$ ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs/
> ls: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/: Permission denied
> tim at linjeni:~$ sudo ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs/
> Password:
> total 4
> -rw-------  1 tim crontab 307 2005-07-18 16:25 tim

How about /usr/bin/crontab?

  $ ls -l /usr/bin/crontab
  -rwxr-sr-x  1 root crontab 26872 2004-07-29 04:44 /usr/bin/crontab*
  $ 

Ensure yours is sgid crontab.



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Russell Steicke

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