On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 17 May 2008, King Spook wrote: >> "crontab -e" does not error out when run as root. >> "crontab -u myuser -e", when run as root, does create a crontab, >> which appears to be owned by root, grouped by root, and with rw >> permissions for owner only. >> >> How can I fix this? >> Thanks. > > I would guess that you crontab binary is not guid: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/spool $ ls -al `which crontab` > -rwxr-s--x 1 root crontab 30180 2007-11-02 12:59 /usr/bin/crontab* > > The various permissions you list for files and dirs are correct - they > match my system which works correctly. > >
So I checked mine using, and you were right in that the permissions were different. So then I tried to make them mirror yours using: sudo chmod u=rwx,g=rs,o=x /usr/bin/crontab But the permissions would up like so: -rwxr-S--x 1 root crontab 35120 Mar 6 17:16 crontab Now when trying "crontab -e", I get: -bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied I'm guessing I messed up in setting guid, since yours is lower-case 's', and mine's showing upper? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
