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Article #753Re: A security hole
From: Stephen J. Friedl
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1988 00:21
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1988 00:21
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In article <168@ists>, mike@ists (Mike Clarkson) writes:
> In article <130@heart-of-gold>, jc@heart-of-gold (John M Chambers x7780 1E342) writes:
> > ... I wouldn't trust news run by root, and I
> > don't trust cron to correctly run things under other ids; I've had too many
> > surprises there to believe that I can reliably control cron.
>
> Use su in your crontab:
>
> 0 * * * * su news -c "rnews -U"
A reminder that 3B2/3B5 System V Release 2 and 3 have separate
crontabs for each user and they take care of doing the "su"
business for you.
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Steve Friedl V-Systems, Inc. *Hi Mom*
friedl@vsi.com {uunet,ihnp4}!vsi.com!friedl
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!umix!uunet!vsi!friedl From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: A security hole Summary: SVR2 cron is nicer Message-ID: <451@vsi.UUCP> Date: 27 Mar 88 00:21:02 GMT References: <181@wsccs.UUCP> <722@rivm05.UUCP> <478@minya.UUCP> <7521@ncoast.UUCP> <168@ists> Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA Lines: 17