Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:17:53
Message-Id: 200606211351.39746.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab by Enrico Weigelt
1 Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 13:34 schrieb ext Enrico Weigelt:
2
3 > I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab
4 > with "crontab -e". This didn't work: permission denied.
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6 Looks quite normal.
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8 > It is easy to fix, by "chmod ugo+s", but after an update,
9 > the shit starts again ...
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11 Or by editing /etc/cron.allow (may be a different file, depending on cron
12 flavour).
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14 > Smells like a bug.
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16 Works as designed.
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18 Bye...
19
20 Dirk
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>