On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, David Maxwell wrote:

# On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 09:55:50PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
# > > > That's a bug that got a lot of press last year, people stuffing
# > > > .tgz into their crontabs to avoid quota. Cron should restrict
# > > > the file to a reasonable size.
# > > 
# > > Cool :-)  I missed that one.  Students?
# > 
# > eek. :-)
# > 
# > cron files should be owned by the owner and quota-ble.
# 
# That puts them in the same logistical category as mailboxes.
# User owned files, in a directory that is shared. The only
# place that wouldn't qualify as shared would be in your home-dir.
# 
# What directory permissions did you have in mind?

Dir permissions?  Why not 711, and crontab files mode 600?

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