Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

Hi folks,


Putting the users into the cron group fixed it. 
Okay, as it should be ;-o

In all these years I never had a system which required this.

For security reasons, this is not bad, so certain users can be
both allowed to have an crontab but forbidden to edit it.

But this is quite inconvenient, if you have dozens of users and
want to allow them all to edit their crontabs.

I would prefer an more advanced crontab(1) program, which can
be executed by all, but has an finer permission config. It also
could allow more checks (ie. via external filters ?) against
the to-be-installed crontab (ie. limit the amount of jobs or
set minimum intervals for some folks).


cu
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