605816 – sys-process/vixie-cron: crontab does not require user to be part of cron group.

Bug 605816 - sys-process/vixie-cron: crontab does not require user to be part of cron group.

Summary: sys-process/vixie-cron: crontab does not require user to be part of cron group.

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 607426

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Cron Team

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Reported:	2017-01-15 20:50 UTC by Piotr Karbowski (RETIRED)
Modified:	2017-01-28 05:04 UTC (History)
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Description Piotr Karbowski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-01-15 20:50:22 UTC

it seems that vixie-cron does not require user to be part of the cron group to setuo new cron jobs.

I am pretty sure it was required few years ago, the Gentoo's wiki page about Cron also states that user needs to be part of 'cron' group, but one can execute 'crontab -e' and install new cron jobs without the needs to be in 'cron' group.

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2017-01-15 20:57:28 UTC

What version of vixie-cron?

Comment 2 Piotr Karbowski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-01-15 21:09:33 UTC

sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r14, the one from ~amd64.

Comment 3 Piotr Karbowski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-01-24 22:25:49 UTC

Any update? I found it rather disturbing that it's unconfirmed even when it's so easy to test it.

Comment 4 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2017-01-28 05:04:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 607426 ***