Subject: Re: /var/cron -> /etc/cron
To: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
From: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
List: current-users
Date: 04/02/1999 11:46:18
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:

> Two things that come to mind:
> 
>  + read-only root filesystem, so users can't change their crontabs.

Users already can't chsh or chfn or passwd with a read-only root, which
seems somewhat worse to me. :)

> However, I'm for the change :-)

Ditto. That, and I would like to see that included in 1.4. I wonder if there
are any other things like that that we can make more sane while there's still
time before the release...

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