https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2350109



--- Comment #11 from Alexandre Detiste <[email protected]> ---

The security model is not the same on Debian & Fedora.

On Debian, /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ is owned by group
'crontab', this job is actualy done by 'cron-daemon-common'.

On Fedora /var/spool/cron is own by the cron implementation.
Which might make the job easier or harder.

Please try to switch back and forth between cronie
and systemd-cron and see wether non-root user crontabs all still work.



[root@fedora ~]# rpm -qf /var/spool/cron
systemd-cron-2.5.1-1.fc43.x86_64
[root@fedora ~]# ls /var/spool/cron/ -dl
drwx-wx--T. 2 root root 18 10 mar 15:55 /var/spool/cron/



$ ls /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ -ld
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 20 sep  2023 /var/spool/cron/crontabs/
$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Debian

These might help setting up similar setting if desired

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/-/blob/master/debian/cron-daemon-common.tmpfile?ref_type=heads
(new systemd-tmpfiles config)
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/-/blob/master/debian/cron-daemon-common.sysusers?ref_type=heads
(new systemd-sysuser config)
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/-/blob/master/debian/cron-daemon-common.postinst?ref_type=heads
(beware, lots of legacy)


Have a look there too:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cronie/blob/rawhide/f/cronie.spec


/usr/bin/crontab should work for all users even if you don't use it yourself
and you will have to learn how it works

I'm maintaining this for 10 years because I first wanted to remove cron; I'm
used to this paradox.


All in all that's the reason I never applied for packaging this myself, I only
spin up my almost empty Fedora VM once a year or so
and this needs more field testing


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