[Bug 185531] Review Request: fcron, a task scheduler

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Summary: Review Request: fcron, a task scheduler


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185531





------- Additional Comments From pertusus@xxxxxxx  2006-03-23 16:52 EST -------
(In reply to comment #29)

> Your patch is very dangerous on the security point of view.
> As a matter of fact, you don't check that the file is not writable
> by someone else than root.

You're completly right. I have made a newer version of that patch that only
remove the check for the file owner and group. Thanks.

> fcrontab needs the suid bit for the group too, so its rights should be 6755 
> and not 4755 as in your patch.

Fixed, and now it runs as a user.

> (but I'm not sure about the PAM error as root: it may be something else).

There is still that error as root...

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