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From: Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:51:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606211351.39746.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060621113412.GA23599@nibiru.local>

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Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 13:34 schrieb ext Enrico Weigelt:

> I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab
> with "crontab -e". This didn't work: permission denied.

Looks quite normal.

> It is easy to fix, by "chmod ugo+s", but after an update,
> the shit starts again ...

Or by editing /etc/cron.allow (may be a different file, depending on cron 
flavour).

> Smells like a bug.

Works as designed.

Bye...

	Dirk
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-21 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-21 11:34 [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab Enrico Weigelt
2006-06-21 11:41 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2006-06-21 11:49 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-06-21 11:51 ` Dirk Heinrichs [this message]
2006-06-21 12:29   ` Alexander Skwar
2006-06-21 13:32     ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-06-21 14:20       ` Neil Bothwick
2006-06-21 14:39         ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-06-21 20:04       ` Alexander Skwar
2006-06-21 13:43     ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-06-21 12:01 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2006-06-21 12:11 ` Shaochun Wang

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