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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:17:25
Message-Id: 44993266.7040607@mid.message-center.info
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab by Enrico Weigelt
1 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2 > Hi folks,
3 >
4 >
5 > I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab
6 > with "crontab -e". This didn't work: permission denied.
7
8 Correct.
9
10 > It is easy to fix, by "chmod ugo+s", but after an update,
11 > the shit starts again ...
12
13 No, that's not a fix. That's a break in.
14
15 > Smells like a bug.
16
17 How do you get that idea? It rather smells, as if you haven't
18 done the slightest checks and it sounds as if everything is
19 working as intended.
20
21 Alexander Skwar
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