Bug#766053: Cannot edit user crontabs

[Yuri D'Elia]

On 10/20/2014 03:23 PM, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I have already discussed this bug with the two other upstreams:
> https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron/issues/15
> 
> They don't really want to mess with a setuid C program that is a potential security hole.
> 
> The easiest to fix this on Debian would be to kindly as the 'cron' maintainers
> to generate an extra 'crontab' binary package with only '/usr/bin/crontab' & the manpage included.
> https://github.com/a-detiste/crontab/commit/37ce687a58187d3cce610b28c1fad47854576584
> 
> I have documented this bug + a workaround in the manpage of the next release:
> https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron/commit/b9f8bc86eb361515089ebbad187aba8a6553033d

Splitting crontab into a separate package would definitely be the way to
go IMHO. It's true that we don't really need another implementation, and
the proposed work-arounds are not good enough.

Did you already ask the cron maintainers if such a patch will be accepted?