Christian Kastner writes ("Re: Bug#655339: Way wanted to disable pointless
permissions nannying"):
> retitle 655339 option to soften system crontab restrictions
> severity 655339 wishlist
> thanks
Thanks. Would you accept a patch ? What way of controlling the
disablement would be acceptable to you ?
> 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.
Many people, myself included, have some deliberately root-equivalent
groups on their system. So this does not represent a real security
problem.
It does however make it much more inconvenient to edit and create
these files. No doubt you've experienced the usual problem with ssh
keys files. I think the same principle applies.
Anyway, I guess I'm not going to get anywhere asking for the default
to change but I'm happy to write code to make it possible to bypass
this.
Ian.
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