Bug#766053: crontab

Shawn Landden shawn at churchofgit.com
Wed Dec 17 01:36:27 GMT 2014


I'm am strongly against a setuid helper. I have a roadmap written up
to get user timer units (other other units) into systemd, which would
also form the basis of a permission controlled secure app environment
(which is a big upstream goal) which would fill this feature gap, but
that would certainly be a long way off.

If you need user crontab you should just install cron. user crontabs
are a complicated security-involved feature and you should stick with
cron which is well audited until upstream systemd fixes this feature
discrepancy (same goes for use of at(1) by unprivileged users)

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Shawn Landden
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