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Bug 37904 - fcron installation has two (redundant) machanisms of protection
Summary: fcron installation has two (redundant) machanisms of protection
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2004-01-11 12:15 UTC by Klaus-J. Wolf
Modified: 2004-04-18 14:19 UTC (History)
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Description Klaus-J. Wolf 2004-01-11 12:15:28 UTC
fcrontab is set 6110 and UID/GID cron:cron which requires a user to be a member of group cron, but besides of that, a user also needs to be in /etc/fcron/fcron.allow to use cron. That is quite confusing. There should be chosen one (orthogonal) way.

Observed with:
sys-apps/cronbase-0.2.1-r2
sys-apps/fcron-2.0.0-r3


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-04-18 14:19:16 UTC
the setuid cron stuff is Gentoo while the fcron.allow is fcron mechanism ...

ive changed the fcron.{allow,deny} to allow everyone so that the default behavior is maintained across all crontab services in gentoo ... if the end user so wishes, they can tweak the fcron files themselves