Re: crontab and sgid (was: nonsuid overflows... still at risk?)

[Olaf Kirch <okir () caldera de>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:43:19PM +0200, Tomasz Grabowski wrote:
> I'am wondering if someone too saw sgid bit on the 'crontab' binary and can
> tell us what is the reason of that situation?

In fact, Solar has suggested a patch to crontab (I believe it was his
idea, apologies if it was in fact someone else) that makes crontab
setgid crontab rather than setuid root. So there are valid reasons for
a setgid crontab.

I'm not sure who's using this patch right now, though.

Olaf
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