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

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> 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.

wasn't the problem that mode 0400 files were rejected?  ie, read-only
not writable files.

> 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.


.mrg.