Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (03/24/91)
So what's the big security increase gained by having to ask root to let you use crontab? The only cron related problem I can see is forgetting to remove a user's crontab and at(1) jobs when her/his account is deleted, e.g., at the end of the semester. Am I just dim? -- Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708 979 6364
diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) (03/25/91)
In article <DANJ1.91Mar23195339@cbnewse.ATT.COM> Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes: >So what's the big security increase gained by having to ask root to >let you use crontab? The only cron related problem I can see is >forgetting to remove a user's crontab and at(1) jobs when her/his >account is deleted, e.g., at the end of the semester. Am I just dim? Well, when cron is denied, it is only necessary to remember to kill the user's executing processes when his/her account is deleted. And change the owner of their controlling ttys or other accessed devices, etc. -- Norman Diamond diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.