RE: crontab

[Werner Puschitz <w us verizon net>]

Try "man setuid" or search for setuid with google.

E.g. "passwd" is an example where a regular user can change his password
by updating the file /etc/shadow which is readable/writable only by root.

Werner



On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Peter Loo wrote:

> Hi Werner,
>
> What is setuid bit?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Werner Puschitz [mailto:w us verizon net]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:11 PM
> To: Peter Loo
> Cc: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: crontab
>
>
>
> Make sure crontab is installed as root and setuid bit is set:
>
> chown root.root /usr/bin/crontab
> chmod 4755 /usr/bin/crontab
>
> Werner
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Peter Loo wrote:
>
> > Can someone please tell me how I can set up crontab so that specific users
> > can have access to crontab using crontab -e option?  I am getting this
> > error.
> >
> > [~]$ crontab -e
> > seteuid: Operation not permitted
> > [~]$
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Peter Loo (Software Engineer)
> > loopeter yahoo com
> > www.whatcanuoffer.com
> >
> >
>
>
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