[BBLISA] limiting cron's capability?

[Sean OMeara]

Cron does Nothing more than run Stuff as a User at certain Times.

All it does is setuid()'s itself to the user who owns the crontab and
execle()'s whatever is on the line.

There is no where to define such behavior within cron.

-s


On Jan 23, 2008 3:48 PM, Scott Ehrlich <scott at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, John Stoffel wrote:
>
> >
> > Scott> Is it possible to prevent cron from executing something in a
> > Scott> world-readable directory, or a directory branching off a
> > Scott> world-readable directory?
> >
>
> Forgive me -
>
> I meant preventing execution from world _writable_ directories (or
> subdirs of world-writable).   That's what happens when I think faster than
> I type, then hit send!
>
> Thanks again for any insights.
>
> Scott
>
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