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.
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. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
