> 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.
wasn't the problem that mode 0400 files were rejected? ie, read-only not writable files. > 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. .mrg.
