retitle 655339 option to soften system crontab restrictions severity 655339 wishlist thanks
Hi, On 2012-01-10 14:57, Ian Jackson wrote: > I have just been bitten by #625491. > > It is now of course too late to revert this ill-advised change. (The > only worse thing than cron jobs unexpected not running would be zombie > cron jobs from years gone by suddenly rising from the dead.) > > However, there should be a way to disable this check. That way when > one edits or creates files with a 002 umask (as is usual) the cron > jobs will actually run. I hardly believe that considering the security implications of a group-writable file from which a daemon, installed by default on all Debian systems, reads and executes arbitrary commands could be called "pointless nannying", but we might as well keep this as a feature request. Regards, Christian
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