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Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/cron/dist



On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 02:30:46PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > Modified Files:
 >      src/external/bsd/cron/dist: database.c
 > 
 > Log Message:
 > PR/47362: Brian Marcotte: cron is too restrictive on file permissions
 > Allow file being writable by owner.
 > XXX: pullup to 6.

On reflection, I suspect that restriction was intentional -- e.g. for
a restricted user whose homedir is owned by root and so forth, you
might want to give them a crontab but not let them modify it.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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